—Topology control problems are concerned with the assignment of power levels to the nodes of an ad-hoc network so as to maintain a specified network topology while minimizing th...
Sensor networks are deployed to monitor the surroundings and keep the end-user informed about the events witnessed. Different types of events have different levels of importance f...
Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
Search queries are typically very short, which means they are often underspecified or have senses that the user did not think of. A broad latent query aspect is a set of keywords ...
For data-collection applications in sensor networks, it is important to ensure all data sources have equal (or weighted) access to network bandwidth so that the base stations rece...