Time synchronization is necessary in many distributed systems, but achieving synchronization in sensornets, which combine stringent precision requirements with severe resource con...
Jeremy Elson, Richard M. Karp, Christos H. Papadim...
The recent proliferation of crowd computing initiatives on the web calls for smarter methodologies and tools to annotate, query and explore repositories. There is the need for scal...
Roberto Mirizzi, Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, ...
Keyword search techniques that take advantage of XML structure make it very easy for ordinary users to query XML databases, but current approaches to processing these queries rely...
The problem of dividing a sequence of values into segments occurs in database systems, information retrieval, and knowledge management. The challenge is to select a finite number ...
In this paper we combine two existing resource selection approaches, CORI and the decision-theoretic framework (DTF). The state-of-the-art system CORI belongs to the large group of...