Due to the lack of efficient native XML database management systems, XML data manipulation and query evaluation may be resource-consuming, and represent a bottleneck for several ...
The research presented in this paper is an examination of how the concepts used in process improvement may be applied to a web form to improve design and usability. Although much ...
Most of the security proposals in m-commerce scenarios have been based on a classical payment model, which basically establishes relationships across domains among customers and me...
System interoperability is a well known issue, especially for heterogeneous information systems, where ontologybased representations may support automatic and usertransparent inte...
A number of factors, such as the increasing popularity of wireless networks, the opportunities offered by 3G services, and the rapid proliferation of mobile devices, have stimulat...
The vision of the Semantic Web is to make Web content machine-readable. To describe data, the Resource Description Framework has been extended with a schema-level and description ...
We built a system for the automatic creation of a textbased topic hierarchy, meant to be used in a geographically defined community. This poses two main problems. First, the appea...
Peers and data objects in the Hybrid Overlay Network (HON) are organized in a ndimensional feature space. As the dimensionality increases, peers and data objects become sparse and ...
The problem of efficiently evaluating XPath and XQuery queries has become increasingly significant since more and more XML data is stored in its native form. We propose a novel op...