Abstract. High quality context information plays a vital role in adapting a system to the rapidly changing situations. However, the diversity of the sources of context information ...
Abstract— Today data sources are pervasive and their number is growing tremendously. Current tools are not prepared to exploit this unprecedented amount of information and to cop...
Existing approaches for optimizing queries in data integration use decoupled strategies–attempting to optimize coverage and cost in two separate phases. Since sources tend to ha...
The level of security provided by digital rights management functions and cryptographic protocols depend heavily on the security of an embedded secret key. The current practice of...
This paper presents a concept for the integration of quantitative and qualitative information sources with their accompanying management support functionalities from navigation and...