Metadata is the information that describes the most important feature of an object. In recent years, metadata plays a more and more important role in data intensive applications. I...
We present HePToX, a full-fledged peer-topeer database system that efficiently handles XML data heterogeneity. In a highly dynamic P2P network, it is unrealistic for a peer enter...
When computing program slices on all variables in a system, we observed that many of these slices are the same. This leads to the question: Are we looking at software clones? We d...
In China-US Million Book Digital Library, output of the digitalization process is more than one terabyte of text in OEB and PDF format. To access these data quickly and accurately,...
One characteristic of the next generation wireless mobile environments is a high level of interoperability between mobile applications and services. This imposes significant dema...