Ranking queries report the top-K results according to a user-defined scoring function. A widely used scoring function is the weighted summation of multiple scores. Often times, u...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Davide Martinen...
We present the framework of a new grid architecture based on the peer-to-peer and the component paradigms. In our architecture, several peer-to-peer components are loosely coupled...
In a distributed sensor network, large number of sensors deployed which communicate among themselves to selforganize a wireless ad hoc network. We propose an energyefficient level...
Malik Ayed Tubaishat, Jian Yin, Biswajit Panja, Sa...
Online email archives are an under-protected yet extremely sensitive information resource. Email archives can store years worth of personal and business email in an easy-to-access...
In automated trust negotiation (ATN), two parties exchange digitally signed credentials that contain attribute information to establish trust and make access control decisions. Be...