Despite increasingly distributed internet information sources with diverse storage formats and access-control constraints, most of the end applications (e.g., filters and media p...
Many applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, data mining, and related fields require a ranking of instances with respect to a specified criteria as op...
Massively deploying RFID systems while preserving people's privacy and data integrity is a major security challenge of the coming years. Up to now, it was commonly believed th...
Query processing on mobile sensor networks requires efficient indexing and partitioning of the data space to support efficient routing as the network scales up. Building an index ...
—Restoring data operations after a disaster is a daunting task: how should recovery be performed to minimize data loss and application downtime? Administrators are under consider...