Heterogeneous and dirty data is abundant. It is stored under different, often opaque schemata, it represents identical real-world objects multiple times, causing duplicates, and ...
Alexander Bilke, Jens Bleiholder, Christoph Bö...
Although telepointers are valuable for supporting real-time collaboration, they are rarely seen in commercial groupware applications that run on the Internet. One reason for their...
Jeff Dyck, Carl Gutwin, Sriram Subramanian, Chris ...
Virtual Private Networks provide secure and reliable communication between customer sites. With increase in number and size of VPNs, providers need efficient provisioning techniqu...
Satish Raghunath, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Shivkumar Ka...
Users’ cross-lingual queries to a digital library system might be short and not included in a common translation dictionary (unknown terms). In this paper, we investigate the fe...
A fundamental issue in the design of a wireless sensor network is to devise mechanisms to make efficient use of its energy, and thus, extend its lifetime. Due to the paramount imp...
Raquel A. F. Mini, Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Lourei...