Popular myths that cheaper memory, high-speed links and high-speed processors will solve the problem of congestion in computer networks are shown to be false. A simple definition f...
In this paper, we examine how active database technology developed over the past few years has been put to use to solve real world problems. We note how the technology had to be e...
Abstract. Current research in context-awareness is biased toward low-level context information. High-level context information, however, poses several challenges to context managem...
In the this paper, we study the problem of collective resource management. We first introduce the problem through realworld examples. Then we generalize the problem and build an a...
The functionality of systems that extract information from texts can be specified quite simply: the input is a stream of texts and the output is some representation of the informa...