The increased pervasiveness of mobile devices like cell phones, PDAs, and laptops draws attention to the need for coordination among these networked devices. The very nature of the...
Abstract. Building user-friendly GUIs for browsing and filtering RDF/S description bases while exploiting in a transparent way the expressiveness of declarative query/view language...
This paper presents a novel and complementary technique to optimize an XPath query by minimizing its wildcard steps. Our approach is based on using a general composite axis called...
This research is about automatic identification and extraction of person names in Chinese text documents. Solutions to this problem have immediate and extensive applications in ma...
This paper presents a study of collaboration in software design at a large software company. Ethnographic studies of development teams in the field are relatively rare, so this pa...