Handoff latency results in packet losses and severe End-to-End TCP performance degradation as TCP, perceiving these losses as congestion, causes source throttling or retransmissio...
Spatial join is an important yet costly operation in spatial databases. In order to speed up the execution of a spatial join, the input tables are often indexed based on their spa...
Large-scale database integration requires a significant cost in developing a global schema and finding mappings between the global and local schemas. Developing the global schema r...
We here describe the subword approach we used in the 2006 ImageCLEF Medical Image Retrieval task. It is based on the assupmtion that neither fully inflected nor automatically stem...
Business Intelligence (BI) applications allow their users to query, understand, and analyze existing data within their organizations in order to acquire useful knowledge, thus mak...