This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
With the advent of fast growing Internet and World Wide Web (WWW), more and more companies start the electronic commerce to enhance the business competitiveness. On the other hand...
: Sufficiently high data quality is crucial for almost every application. Nonetheless, data quality issues are nearly omnipresent. The reasons for poor quality cannot simply be bla...
This paper describes a novel multi-stage recognition procedure for deducing the spelling and pronunciation of an open set of names. The overall goal is the automatic acquisition o...
— Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are often required to simultaneously process multiple diverse workloads while enforcing business policies that govern workload performance. ...
Wendy Powley, Patrick Martin, Mingyi Zhang, Paul B...