Pre-processing algorithms improve the quality of a compression system by removing unimportant data before encoding. This enhances both the visual quality and coding efficiency of ...
C. Andrew Segall, Passant V. Karunaratne, Aggelos ...
Data freshness has been identified as one of the most important data quality attributes in information systems. This importance increases particularly in the context of distribute...
In this paper, we studied the semantic consistency maintenance issue between heterogeneous contexts, that is, how a firm business process of one e-marketplace can be transformed t...
Abstract. Depending on whether the users or the providers are performing it, Identity Management (IM) traditionally has different meanings. For users, IM means to choose between on...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...