In this paper, we study the evaluation of skyline queries with partially-ordered attributes. Because such attributes lack a total ordering, traditional index-based evaluation algo...
A serious threat to user privacy in new mobile and web2.0 applications stems from ‘social inferences’. These unwanted inferences are related to the users’ identity, current ...
The rapid growth of available data arises the need for more sophisticated techniques for semantic access to information. It has been proved that using conceptual model or ontology...
Annotea provides an annotation protocol to support collaborative Semantic Web-based annotation of digital resources accessible through the Web. It provides a model whereby a user m...
We study the problem of aggregating data from a sparse set of nodes in a wireless sensor network. This is a common situation when a sensor network is deployed to detect relatively...
Jie Gao, Leonidas J. Guibas, Nikola Milosavljevic,...