Consider a database that represents the location of moving objects, such as taxi-cabs (typical query: retrieve the cabs that are currently within 1 mile of 33 Michigan Ave., Chica...
Ouri Wolfson, Sam Chamberlain, Son Dao, Liqin Jian...
The era of distributed systems is upon us. Middlewarespecific concerns, and especially the distribution concern, which is the core of any middleware-mediated application, are addr...
How do licenses participate in Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) community life? This paper aims at answering this question. Despite the dynamic character of FLOSS development...
Stefano De Paoli, Maurizio Teli, Vincenzo D'Andrea
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
This paper presents our first participation in the OAEI 2007 campaign. It describes an approach to align taxonomies which relies on terminological and structural techniques applie...