Data stream management systems (DSMSs) process continuous queries over streaming data in real-time adhering to quality of service requirements. The data streams generated from sen...
Knowledge management is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage for organizations. Knowledge is a renewable, re-usable and accumulating asset of value to firms t...
New portable consumer embedded devices must execute multimedia applications (e.g., 3D games, video players and signal processing software, etc.) that demand extensive memory acces...
may be saved for later reuse of material, but also to preserve the historical perspective of work done [ha:92]. In particular, in distributed and collaborative hypertext systems, v...
Nowadays, due to the lack of face-to-face contact, distance course instructors have real difficulties knowing who their students are, how their students behave in the virtual cour...