Due to recent advances in network and computing facilities, use of the Internet is becoming popular and promising in various areas such as scientific collaboration, information di...
Industrial Information Grid (IIG) is a special kind of Grid system, the users of which exclusively own geographically distributed resources for Web service applications and try to...
Jianfeng Zhan, Gengpu Liu, Lei Wang, Bibo Tu, Yi J...
Distributed information management plays a fundamental role within the base infrastructure supporting the elderly care domain. Specificities of this domain include the autonomy and...
Abstract. We propose an approach to Distributed Information Retrieval based on the periodic and incremental centralisation of full-text indices of widely dispersed and autonomously...
Fabio Simeoni, Murat Yakici, Steve Neely, Fabio Cr...
Abstract. Unlike traditional database management systems, in multimedia databases that support content-based retrieval over multimedia objects, it is difficult for users to express...
Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Orteg...