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COOPIS
2004
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
Refresco: Improving Query Performance Through Freshness Control in a Database Cluster
Abstract. We consider the use of a cluster system for managing autonomous databases. In order to improve the performance of read-only queries, we strive to exploit user requirement...
Cécile Le Pape, Stéphane Ganç...
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
Ontology for Nature-Scene Image Retrieval
This paper presents a framework for building an ontology to provide semantic interpretations in image contents. The novelty of this framework comes from building a MPEG-7 ontology ...
Song Liu, Liang-Tien Chia, Syin Chan
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
Minimizing the Network Distance in Distributed Web Crawling
Abstract. Distributed crawling has shown that it can overcome important limitations of the centralized crawling paradigm. However, the distributed nature of current distributed cra...
Odysseas Papapetrou, George Samaras
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
SPREE: Object Prefetching for Mobile Computers
Mobile platforms combined with large databases promise new opportunities for mobile applications. However, mobile computing devices may experience frequent communication loss while...
Kristian Kvilekval, Ambuj K. Singh
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
Text Simplification for Information-Seeking Applications
Abstract. This paper addresses the issue of simplifying natural language texts in order to ease the task of accessing factual information contained in them. We define the notion of...
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
Analysis, Transformation, and Improvements of ebXML Choreographies Based on Workflow Patterns
In ebXML the choreography of a business process should be modeled by UMM (UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology) and is finally expressed in BPSS (Business Process Specification Schema). ...
Ja-Hee Kim, Christian Huemer
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
GRIDKIT: Pluggable Overlay Networks for Grid Computing
A `second generation' approach to the provision of Grid middleware is now emerging which is built on service-oriented architecture and web services standards and technologies....
Paul Grace, Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Lauren...
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
Cooperative Artefacts
In this position paper we introduce Cooperative Artefacts, physical objects that embed sensing, communication, computation and actuation in physical objects. In contrast to many ot...
Hans-Werner Gellersen
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
Intellectual Property Rights Management Using a Semantic Web Information System
IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) Management is a complex domain. The IPR field is structured by evolving regulations, practises, business models,... Therefore, DRMS (Digital Righ...
Roberto García, Rosa Gil, Jaime Delgado
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
A Meta-service for Event Notification
The integration of event information from diverse event notification sources is, as with meta-searching over heterogeneous search engines, a challenging task. Due to the complexity...
Doris Jung, Annika Hinze