Abstract. Access control is a system-wide concern that has both a generic nature and an application dependent characteristic. It is generic as many functions must be protected with...
With an increasing number of vehicles equipped with embedded computing platforms and advanced wireless technology, general purpose vehicle telematics applications are highly promi...
It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...
Many modern natural language-processing applications utilize search engines to locate large numbers of Web documents or to compute statistics over the Web corpus. Yet Web search e...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer networks have often been touted as the ultimate solution to scalability. Although cooperative techniques have been initially used almost exclusively for cont...