Unlike numerical preferences, preferences on attribute values do not show an inherent total order, but skyline computation has to rely on partial orderings explicitly stated by th...
Performance of traditional content-based image retrieval systems is far from user’s expectation due to the ‘semantic gap’ between low-level visual features and the richness ...
Search is a fundamental service in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. However, despite numerous research efforts, efficient algorithms for guaranteed location of shared content in unst...
Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, As...
: Traditional spatial indexes like R-tree usually assume the database is not updated frequently. In applications like location-based services and sensor networks, this assumption i...
Abstract. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) finds use in numerous applications involving item identification and tracking. In a typical application, RFID tags are attached t...