Mobile users today demand ubiquitous access to their data from any mobile device and under variable connection quality. We refer to this requirement as any-time, any-where data ac...
Abstract. Many realistic user tasks involve the retrieval of specific entities instead of just any type of documents. Examples of information needs include ‘Countries where one ...
Arjen P. de Vries, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A....
The diversity of devices in both wired and wireless networks via which multimedia contents are desired to be accessed and interacted with has grown significantly. Applications lik...
The strong dynamics of peer-to-peer networks, coupled with the diversity of peer vocabularies, makes query processing in peer database systems a very challenging task. In this pape...
Access control is one of the most fundamental and widely used security mechanisms. Access control mechanisms control which principals such as users or processes have access to whi...
Vincent C. Hu, Evan Martin, JeeHyun Hwang, Tao Xie