With the rapidly falling price of hardware, and increasingly available bandwidth, the storage technology is seeing a paradigm shift from centralized and managed mode to distribute...
1 This paper presents an investigation into the utility of document summarisation in the context of information retrieval, more specifically in the application of so called query b...
Uncertain data are inherent in some important applications, such as environmental surveillance, market analysis, and quantitative economics research. Due to the importance of thos...
Next generation Web 2.0 communities and distributed P2P systems rely on the cooperation of diverse user populations spread across numerous administrative and security domains. Zero...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Kevin C. Almeroth, Ben Y. Zha...
Schema merging is the process of consolidating multiple schemas into a unified view. The task becomes particularly challenging when the schemas are highly heterogeneous and autono...
Xiang Li 0002, Christoph Quix, David Kensche, Sand...