Data Acquisition Systems (DAS) are the basis for building monitoring tools that enable the supervision of local and remote systems. DASs are complex systems. It is difficult for de...
A business process model represents the basic building block for a workflow-enabled enterprise information system. Generally, a process model evolves through numerous changes durin...
In this paper, we propose a new tunable index scheme, called iMinMax, that maps points in high dimensional spaces to single dimension values determined by their maximum or minimu...
Information Dissemination applications are gaining increasing popularity due to dramatic improvements in communications bandwidth and ubiquity. The sheer volume of data available ...
In this paper we study how to build an effective incremental crawler. The crawler selectively and incrementally updates its index and/or local collection of web pages, instead of ...