– Wireless mobile access to the Internet is an indispensable tool for private and corporate users alike; but both industry and academia recognize the need for better service. Imp...
In this paper we describe the acquistion and content of a new large, realistic and challenging multi-modal database intended for training and testing multi-modal verification syst...
Abstract. Distributed heterogeneous search environments are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers...
Data warehouses (DWs) are complex computer systems whose main goal is to facilitate the decision making process of knowledge workers. ETL (Extraction-Transformation-Loading) proces...
Mobile handheld devices have stringent constraints on power consumption because they run on batteries that have a limited lifetime. Conserving power to prolong battery life is of ...