The discovery of a person’s personally important places involves obtaining the physical locations for a person’s places that matter to his daily life and routines. This proble...
The strength of GIS is in providing a rich data infrastructure for combining disparate data in meaningful ways by using a spatial arrangement (e.g., proximity). As a toolbox, a GI...
Querying semantically related data sources depends on the ability to map between their schemas. Unfortunately, in most cases matching between schema is still largely performed man...
Fabien Duchateau, Zohra Bellahsene, Mark Roantree,...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
Separation of duties (SoD) is a key security requirement for many business and information systems. Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) is a relatively new paradigm for protecting i...
David W. Chadwick, Wensheng Xu, Sassa Otenko, Roma...
Adaptive query processing is of utmost importance for the scalability of data stream processing systems due to the long-running queries and fluctuating stream characteristics. An...
The appropriate deployment of web service operations at the service provider site plays a critical role in the efficient provision of services to clients. In this paper, we assume...
A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable application-to-application interactions over the Internet. Recently, there has been a growing interest in Web ...
Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Ryan Bishop, Pat...
Most recommender systems present recommended products in lists to the user. By doing so, much information is lost about the mutual similarity between recommended products. We prop...
Martijn Kagie, Michiel C. van Wezel, Patrick J. F....
With the rapid progress of mobile devices and positioning technologies, Trajectory Databases (TD) have been in the core of database research during the last decade. Analysis and k...
Nikos Pelekis, Ioannis Kopanakis, Irene Ntoutsi, G...