The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...
With the emergence of applications that require content-based similarity retrieval, techniques to support such a retrieval paradigm over database systems have emerged as a critica...
Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Kaushik Chakrabarti, ...
Component-based development is the emerging paradigm in software production, though several challenges still slow down its full taking up. In particular, the "component trust...
This paper introduces MobiCare ? a novel service architecture that enables a wide range of health-related services for efficient and mobile patient care. These services include: (...
With the emergence of software delivery platforms such as Microsoft's .NET, code compression has become one of the core enabling technologies strongly affecting system perfor...