The handling of user preferences is becoming an increasingly important issue in present-day information systems. Among others, preferences are used for information filtering and ex...
In this paper, we present the Dynamic Injection Model (DIM) and its variant the Static Injection Model (SIM). DIM is a model that allows any iterative block cipher to accept a var...
This paper analyses reported difficulties in spatial data retrieval from Internet portals, based on results from an empirical survey. The analysis reveals the problems which cause ...
This paper proposes a new region extraction algorithm based on cellular automaton operation, which only utilizes the region boundary information of the image. A simple pixel circu...
Distributed computing has taken a new importance in order to meet the requirements of users demanding information “anytime, anywhere.” Inferno facilitates the creation and sup...