Mobile terminals (cellular phones, PDAs, palmtops etc.) emerge as a new class of small-scale, ad-hoc service providers that share data and functionality via mobile web services’...
In the near future, mobile devices are expected to have a storage capacity comparable to today's desktop machines. As the amount of infomation grows, conventional search tool...
Recently, the analysis of moving objects has become one of the most important technologies to be used in various applications such as GIS, navigation systems, and locationbased in...
Sensor networks can be viewed as large distributed databases, and SQL-like high-level declarative languages can be used for data and information retrieval. Energy constraints make ...
For the huge amounts of audio and video material that could usefully be included in digital libraries, the cost of producing human-generated annotations and meta-data is prohibiti...
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Michael J. Witbrock, Micha...