Sensor networks have become an important source of data with numerous applications in monitoring various real-life phenomena as well as industrial applications and traffic contro...
Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad M...
Query answers from on-line databases can easily be corrupted by hackers or malicious database publishers. Thus it is important to provide mechanisms which allow clients to trust th...
Charles U. Martel, Glen Nuckolls, Premkumar T. Dev...
Data intensive applications today usually run in either a clientserver or a middleware environment. In either case, they must efficiently handle both database queries, which proc...
Abstract. Recent research showed the benefits of adopting formal ontologies as a means for accessing heterogeneous data sources. The use of an ontology not only provides a uniform...