In peer-to-peer data management systems query allocation is a critical issue for the good operation of the system. This task is challenging because participants may prefer to perf...
A comprehensive video retrieval system should be able to accommodate and utilize various (complementary) description data in facilitating effective retrieval. In this paper, we ad...
Shermann S.-M. Chan, Qing Li, Yi Wu, Yueting Zhuan...
The analysis of time series is a central issue in economic research and many other scientific applications. However, the data management functionality for this field is not provid...
Werner Dreyer, Angelika Kotz Dittrich, Duri Schmid...
How to manage confidential data in the grid environment is a critical issue because users’ data can be saved in untrusted remote storages. This paper introduces a service to sto...
To construct large scale ontologies, two major approaches are discussed by many researchers. One is a cooperative construction of ontologies, and the other is a modularization of o...