The advent of emerging technologies such as Web services, service-oriented architecture, and cloud computing has enabled us to perform business services more efficiently and effect...
TeleScribe is a software mechanism for efficiently reprogramming embedded systems such as wireless sensor nodes over a shared communication link. One distinguishing feature is its...
Many real-time applications are designed to work in different operating modes each characterized by different functionality and resource demands. With each mode change, resource d...
Nikolay Stoimenov, Lothar Thiele, Luca Santinelli,...
In this paper, we propose the Hybrid-Layer Index (simply, the HL-index) that is designed to answer top-k queries efficiently when the queries are expressed on any arbitrary subset ...
Given the large amount of existing services and the diversified needs nowadays, it is time-consuming for end-users to find appropriate services. To help end-users obtain their desi...