This paper presents a new routing strategy, that selects the best network paths in an overlay network, in order to minimize the distortion perceived by the end user. We first pro...
– The main task of a voice-enabled tour-guide robot in mass exhibition setting is to engage visitors in dialogue and provide as much exhibit information as possible in a limited ...
The XML data is order-sensitive. The order problem, that is how ordered XML documents and order-sensitive queries over it can be efficiently supported when mapped into the unorde...
Ling Wang, Song Wang, Brian Murphy, Elke A. Runden...
The emerging paradigms of service oriented architectures and utility-based computing have the potential to greatly reduce the cost of data management. Data management service prov...
In distributed computing systems, it is unwise to move data to the point of program code, but instead process data at the point of storage. This concept is even more appropriate t...