As the world moves to digital storage for archival purposes, there is an increasing demand for reliable, lowpower, cost-effective, easy-to-maintain storage that can still provide ...
Mark W. Storer, Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller,...
The need for incorporating preference querying in database technology is a very important issue in a variety of applications ranging from e-commerce to personalized search engines....
Usage controls enable the provider of some information to limit how recipients may use it. Usage controls may be desirable in enterprise environments, e.g., for regulatory complia...
Electronic markets, distributed peer-to-peer applications and other forms of online collaboration are all based on mutual trust, which enables transacting peers to overcome the un...
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...