A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
Portable or embedded systems allow more and more complex applications like multimedia today. These applications and submicronic technologies have made the power consumption criter...
— This paper describes an ontology-driven model, which integrates Bayesian Networks (BN) into the Ontology Web Language (OWL) to preserve the advantages of both. This model makes...
Federated digital libraries are composed of distributed, autonomous, and often heterogeneous information services but provide users with a transparent, integrated view of collected...
: Problem statement: For a sensor network comprising autonomous and self-organizing data sources, efficient similarity-based search for semantic-rich resources (such as video data)...