After a system crash, databases recover to the last committed transaction, but applications usually either crash or cannot continue. The Phoenix purpose is to enable application s...
Geographic information retrieval (GIR) is, as a branch of traditional information retrieval, a discipline that tries to enrich data with geographical information to make it suitab...
Indoor spaces pose many challenges for spatial information systems, amongst them appropriate spatial communication. Compared to typical outdoor spaces, indoor spaces are clustered...
Kai-Florian Richter, Stephan Winter, Urs-Jakob R&u...
In this demonstration paper we present MAPS, a novel system that combines approximate information retrieval and filtering functionality in a peer-to-peer setting. In MAPS, a user...
Christian Zimmer, Johannes Heinz, Christos Tryfono...
— This paper aims to present ideas to bridge the gap between two conflicting views of information: Shannon information, which is used to model physical layer information, and se...