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In collaborative filtering systems, a common technique is default voting. Unknown ratings are filled with a default value to alleviate the sparsity of rating databases. We show ...
Web Services have experienced great interest during the last years as they were expected to act as enablers of seamless application-to-application integration both within company ...
With the growing popularity of XML there is a need not only to describe the structure of XML data but also its semantics. For the conceptual modelling of XML we can use existing c...
We consider the problem of data durability in lowbandwidth large-scale distributed storage systems. Given the limited bandwidth between replicas, these systems suffer from long re...
We propose an XML storage scheme based on Document Table Model (DTM) which expresses an XML document as a table form. When performing query processing on large scale XML data, XML...
Makoto Yui, Jun Miyazaki, Shunsuke Uemura, Hirokaz...
In this position paper we analyze the benefits of enabling virtual communities to self-organize and introduce a novel research direction for providing incentives, required in this...
Users in ubiquitous and pervasive computing environments will be much more empowered in ways to access and to control their navigation. Handover, the vital event in which a user c...
Edson dos Santos Moreira, David N. Cottingham, Jon...
This paper deals with the processing adopted for shape extraction from the 2D-presentation (image) in radar automatic target recognition field. The goal is to provide helpful info...
Abdelmalek Toumi, Brigitte Hoeltzener, Ali Khencha...
This paper introduces a hybrid metaheuristic, the Variable Neighborhood Particle Swarm Optimization (VNPSO), consisting of a combination of the Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) ...