Abstract. Query reformulation techniques based on semantic knowledge have been used in two ways in database management systems, namely for query optimization and for data integrati...
Pipelining has been used in the design of many PRAM algorithms to reduce their asymptotic running time. Paul, Vishkin, and Wagener (PVW) used the approach in a parallel implementat...
Abstract The protection of customer privacy is a fundamental issue in today's corporate marketing strategies. Not surprisingly, many research efforts have proposed new privacy...
A holy grail of component-based software engineering is "write-once, reuse everywhere". However, in modern distributed, component-based systems supporting emerging appli...
Eric Wohlstadter, Stefan Tai, Thomas A. Mikalsen, ...
In pervasive computing, devices or peers may implement or compose services using services from other devices or peers, and may use components from various sources. A composition t...