Abstract--The Lagrangian formulation of variable-rate vector quantization is known to yield useful necessary conditions for quantizer optimality and generalized Lloyd algorithms fo...
Abstract. In the context of XML data management systems, the estimation of query cardinality is becoming more and more important: the information provided by a query result estimat...
Abstract. As more and more person-specific data like health information becomes available, increasing attention is paid to confidentiality and privacy protection. One proposed mode...
Design of protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) is generally tricky compared to wired networks, because on the one hand the increased communication constraints given by th...
One of the pre-requisites for the realization of the Semantic Web vision are matching techniques which are capable of handling the open, dynamic and heterogeneous nature of the se...