With the growing number of service advertisements in service marketplaces, there is a need for matchmakers which select and rank functionally similar services based on nonfunction...
The use of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to store and query XML data has attracted considerable interest with a view to leveraging their powerful and reliable da...
This paper presents a secure Generalized Vickrey Auction (GVA) scheme that does not require third-party servers, i.e., the scheme is executed only by an auctioneer and bidders. Com...
Traditional regression analysis derives global relationships between variables and neglects spatial variations in variables. Hence they lack the ability to systematically discover...
Content-based publish/subscribe systems allow matching the content of events with predicates in the subscriptions. However, most existing systems only allow a limited set of opera...