Rapid advances in wireless networking technologies have enabled mobile devices to be connected anywhere and anytime. While roaming, applications on these devices dynamically disco...
In this paper we present the Infocious Web search engine [23]. Our goal in creating Infocious is to improve the way people find information on the Web by resolving ambiguities pre...
Scienti c research addressing global change continues to generate large quantities of information for analysis and understanding. However, the volume, distributed nature, and dive...
Betty H. C. Cheng, Robert H. Bourdeau, Gerald C. G...
Since the 1970’s, database systems have been “compute-centric”. When a computation needs the data, it requests the data, and the data are pulled through the system. We belie...
Subi Arumugam, Alin Dobra, Christopher M. Jermaine...
: With the increasing amount of information available on the Internet one of the most challenging tasks is to provide search interfaces that are easy to use without having to learn...