Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is slated to become a standard for tagging various products. As more and more products become RFID enabled, fast tag identification mechanism...
Recent progress in information extraction has shown how to automatically build large ontologies from high-quality sources like Wikipedia. But knowledge evolves over time; facts ha...
Yafang Wang, Mingjie Zhu, Lizhen Qu, Marc Spaniol,...
Pervasive computing introduces data management requirements that must be tackled in a growingvariety of lightweight computing devices. Personal folders on chip, networks of sensor...
The UQBE is a mashup tool for non-programmers that supports query-by-example (QBE) over a schema made up by the user without knowing the schema of the original sources. Based on a...
Since navigation systems and tracking devices are becoming ubiquitous in our daily life, the development of efficient methods for processing massive sets of mobile objects are of ...