An important issue arising from large scale data integration is how to efficiently select the top-K ranking answers from multiple sources while minimizing the transmission cost. T...
The modeling of music as a language is a core issue for a wide range of applications such as polyphonic music retrieval, automatic style identification, audio to symbolic music tr...
This paper describes an agent system we have built to handle order entry and management issue in business computing and specialized in the telecommunication domain. Our system is ...
When implementing persistent objects on a relational database, a major performance issue is prefetching data to minimize the number of roundtrips to the database. This is especial...
The concept of automating Web services, specifically the brokering activities, is an active research topic. We need a comprehensive and overarching framework that handles the disc...