Web service technologies promise to facilitate collaboration among business partners by helping potential business partners find one another and integrate their business processe...
Traditional searching and browsing functions for bibliographic databases do no longer enable users to deal efficiently with the rapidly growing number of scientific publications....
In this paper, we describe a new indexing technique, the time indez, for improving the performance of certain classes of temporal queries. The time index can be used to retrieve v...
Evolving multiple robots so that each robot acting independently can contribute to the maximization of a system level objective presents significant scientific challenges. For e...
There has been a great deal of interest in recent years on ranking query results in relational databases. This paper presents a novel method to rank objects (e.g., tuples) by explo...