Abstract. In this paper we provide a full-scale evaluation of a cluster-based architecture for P2P IR, focusing on retrieval effectiveness. We observe that there is a significant ...
Abstract. K-anonymisation is an approach to protecting private information contained within a dataset. Many k-anonymisation methods have been proposed recently and one class of suc...
Abstract. The notion of dependency is ubiquitous. This paper approaches this notion from the perspective of digital information preservation. At first, an abstract notion of modul...
With the Object-Reference (ORef) approach, the traditional object-oriented model is extended with references to act as a canonical model. Our ORef model facilitates the storage of ...
XML has become the standard format for data representation and exchange in domains ranging from Web to desktop applications. However, wide adoption of XML is hindered by inefficien...
Abstract. The problem of storing and querying XML data using relational databases has been considered a lot and many techniques have been developed. MXML is an extension of XML sui...
Emerging non-standard applications like the production of high-quality spatial sound pose new challenges to data management. Beside the need for a flexible transactional managemen...
The motivation of this paper is to research the individual and the team levels of knowledge management, in order to unveil prominent knowledge needs, interactions and processes, an...