As more and more information is available on the web, it is a problem that many web resources are not accessible, i.e., are not usable for users with special needs. For example, f...
Portable systems such as cell phones and portable media players commonly use non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) to hold all of their data and metadata, and larger systems can store metadata...
The full integration of information retrieval (IR) features into a database management system (DBMS) has long been recognized as both a significant goal and a challenging undertak...
Samuel DeFazio, Amjad M. Daoud, Lisa Ann Smith, Ja...
The availability of indoor positioning renders it possible to deploy location-based services in indoor spaces. Many such services will benefit from the efficient support for k n...
Multiple-dimensional, i.e., polyadic, data exist in many applications, such as personalized recommendation and multipledimensional data summarization. Analyzing all the dimensions...