Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
In the light of image retrieval evolving from text annotation to content-based and from standalone applications to web-based search engines, we foresee the need for deploying cont...
In wireless ad hoc networks, capacity can be traded for delay. This tradeoff has been the subject of a number of studies, mainly concentrating on the two extremes: either minimizi...
Web service composition enables seamless and dynamic integration of business applications on the web. The performance of the composed application is determined by the performance ...