Within the field of cultural heritage restoration, experts are interested in the analysis of data describing the condition and history of ancient monuments. Data are usually distr...
The vision of an integrated Earth observation system to help protect and sustain the planet and its inhabitants is significant and timely, and thus has been identified recently by...
In a mobile environment, querying a database at a stationary server from a mobile client is expensive due to the limited bandwidth of a wireless channel and the instability of the ...
We present three distributed algorithms to build global inverted files for very large text collections. The distributed environment we use is a high bandwidth network of workstati...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Edleno Silva de Moura, M...
Usage controls enable the provider of some information to limit how recipients may use it. Usage controls may be desirable in enterprise environments, e.g., for regulatory complia...