In recent years several models have been proposed for text categorization. Within this, one of the widely applied models is the vector space model (VSM), where independence betwee...
Recommender Systems are gaining widespread acceptance in e-commerce applications to confront the information overload problem. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a successful recommen...
Sharing huge databases in distributed systems is inherently difficult. As the amount of stored data increases, data localization techniques become no longer sufficient. A more ef...
Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez,...
Existing Web image search engines index images by textual descriptions including filename, image caption, surrounding text, etc. However, the textual description available on the W...
GridVine is a Peer Data Management System based on a decentralized access structure. Built following the principle of data independence, it separates a logical layer – where dat...