Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
Abstract. A major challenge in pervasive computing is to learn activity patterns, such as bathing and cleaning from sensor data. Typical sensor deployments generate sparse datasets...
Abstract. This paper proposes to exploit content and usage information to rearrange an inverted index for a full-text IR system. The idea is to merge the entries of two frequently ...
Abstract. Directed graphs are commonly drawn by the Sugiyama algorithm, where crossing reduction is a crucial phase. It is done by repeated one-sided 2-level crossing minimizations...
Christian Bachmaier, Franz-Josef Brandenburg, Wolf...
Abstract. Since the demise of the Overnet network, the Kad network has become not only the most popular but also the only widely used peer-to-peer system based on a distributed has...
Thomas Locher, David Mysicka, Stefan Schmid, Roger...