Web Services are an emerging software technology that employ XML to share and exchange data. They may serve as wrappers for legacy data sources, integrate multiple remote data sou...
The importance of metadata has been broadly referred in the last years, mainly in the field of data warehousing and decision support systems. Contemporarily, in the adjacent field...
The Online Database of Interlinear Text (ODIN)1 is a database of interlinear text "snippets", harvested mostly from scholarly documents posted to the Web. Although large...
This paper introduces a new concept of surveillance, namely, audio-visual data integration for background modelling. Actually, visual data acquired by a fixed camera can be easily ...
In this paper, we take the first step to address the gap between the security needs in outsourced hosting services and the protection provided in the current practice. We consider ...