Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are routinely used by public and private organisations and enterprises as well as lay persons. It is becoming an infrastructure and a precond...
Database systems have been designed to manage business critical information and make this information accessible on request to connected clients. There is, however, an ever-increa...
Evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR) has long focused on effectiveness and efficiency. However, new and emerging access tasks now demand alternative evaluation measures which ...
A Distributed Information Brokering System (DIBS) is a peer-to-peer overlay network that comprises diverse data servers and brokering components helping client queries locate the ...
Fengjun Li, Bo Luo, Peng Liu, Dongwon Lee, Chao-Hs...
The efficiency of a communication network depends not only on its control protocols, but also on its topology. We propose a distributed topology management algorithm that construc...