: Web Services can be used to automate business activities that span multiple enterprises over the Internet. Such business activities require a coordination protocol to reach consi...
Wenbing Zhao, Firat Kart, Louise E. Moser, P. M. M...
Abstract. The paper discusses the design and prototype implementation of a QoS-aware multimedia database system. Recent research in multimedia databases has devoted little attentio...
Yi-Cheng Tu, Sunil Prabhakar, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid,...
Data ambiguity is inherent in applications such as data integration, location-based services, and sensor monitoring. In many situations, it is possible to “clean”, or remove, ...
Reynold Cheng, Eric Lo, Xuan Yang, Ming-Hay Luk, X...
Many modern software systems provide progress indicators for long-running tasks. These progress indicators make systems more user-friendly by helping the user quickly estimate how...
Gang Luo, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Curt J. Ellmann, Mi...
Abstract. While extensive e orts have been devoted to the development of e cient ad-hoc algorithms for association rules mining, little or no interest has been paid to the integrat...
Elena Baralis, Stefano Ceri, Rosa Meo, Giuseppe Ps...