Exploiting the concepts of social networking represents a novel approach to the approximate similarity query processing. We present a metric social network where relations between...
This paper proposes a cryptographic mechanism for metering the duration and/or the number of instances of running a data process. This mechanism has the following property: knowing...
Queries for composite events typically involve the four complementary dimensions of event data, event composition, relationships between events (esp. temporal and causal), and acc...
An innate characteristic of the development of ontologies is that they are often created by independent groups of expertise, which generates the necessity of merging and aligning o...
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...