Despite increasing popularity, Location-based Services (LBS) (e.g., searching nearby points-of-interest on map) on mobile handheld devices have been subject to major privacy conce...
This paper presents approaches for building, managing, and evaluating consensus ontologies from the individual ontologies of a network of socially interacting agents. Each agent h...
Until recently, most data integration techniques involved central components, e.g., global schemas, to enable transparent access to heterogeneous databases. Today, however, with t...
The most commonly used request processing model in multithreaded web servers is thread-per-request, in which an individual thread is bound to serve each web request. However, with...
Databases are a key technology for molecular biology which is a very data intensive discipline. Since molecular biological databases are rather heterogeneous, unification and data...