Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...
XML and Web services are revolutioning the automatic management of distributed information, somewhat in the same way that HTML, Web browsers and search engines modified human acce...
Abstract— A location tracking sensor network is being deployed in several buildings at the University of Michigan to help explore issues in design of pervasive environments. Mana...
When monitoring sensory data (e.g., from a wearable device) the context oftentimes changes abruptly: people move from one situation (e.g., working quietly in their office) to ano...
An important issue arising from Peer-to-Peer applications is how to accurately and efficiently retrieve a set of K best matching data objects from different sources while minimizi...