The similarity search has become a fundamental computational task in many applications. One of the mathematical models of the similarity – the metric space – has drawn attenti...
File systems that allocate data contiguously often use bitmaps to representand managefree space. Increases in the size of storage to be managed creates a needfor eficient algorith...
A common problem facing mobile computing is disconnected operation, or computing in the absence of a network. Hoarding eases disconnected operation by selecting a subset of the us...
Web personalization is the process of customizing a Web site to the needs of each specific user or set of users, taking advantage of the knowledge acquired through the analysis of...
In contrast to classical databases and IR systems, real-world information systems have to deal increasingly with very vague and diverse structures for information management and s...
Xuan Zhou, Julien Gaugaz, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgan...