Emerging non-standard applications like the production of high-quality spatial sound pose new challenges to data management. Beside the need for a flexible transactional managemen...
The PENG system is intended to provide an integrated and personalized environment for news professionals, providing functionalities for filtering, distributed retrieval, and a fle...
We present a parallel version of BIRCH with the objective of enhancing the scalability without compromising on the quality of clustering. The incoming data is distributed in a cyc...
This paper addresses the specification of security modules in a Mobile Digital Rights Management (DRM) approach with a focus on copy detection mechanisms. The presented DRM approa...
Processing of top-k queries has been attracting considerable attention. Much of the work assumes distributed data, with each site holding a different set of attributes for the sam...