In this paper, we study a synchronous execution strategy f o r parallel join computation in multiprocessor systems. Through a further comprehensive investigation of the processor ...
Information integration and retrieval are useful tasks in many information systems. In these systems, it is far from an easy task to directly integrate information from natural lan...
—In this paper we describe the evolution of eConference, a text-based conferencing system that has turned into a collaborative platform. We draw the lessons learned from the evol...
Spatial queries for extracting data from wireless sensor networks are important for many applications, such as environmental monitoring and military surveillance. One such query i...
Agent technology is often claimed to be the most natural approach for automating e-commerce business processes. Despite these claims, up till now, the most successful e-commerce sy...
Costin Badica, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Ama...