Abstract. QoS-aware distributed applications such as certain Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing applications can benefit greatly from the provision of QoS guarantees from the unde...
Query processing in traditional information management systems has moved from an exact match model to more flexible paradigms allowing cooperative retrieval by aggregating the dat...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
Due to the information growth, distributed environments are offered as a feasible and scalable solution where Peerto-Peer networks have become more relevant. They bring many advan...
Automatic text classification is an important operational problem in digital library practice. Most text classification efforts so far concentrated on developing centralized solut...
Design templates that involve discovery, analysis, and integration of information resources commonly occur in many scientific research projects. In this paper we present examples o...
Joel H. Saltz, Scott Oster, Shannon Hastings, Step...