The tools used to analyze scientific data are often distinct from those used to archive, retrieve, and query data. A scientific workflow environment, however, allows one to seamles...
Chad Berkley, Shawn Bowers, Matthew B. Jones, Bert...
In many classification and data-mining applications the user does not know a priori which distance measure is the most appropriate for the task at hand without examining the produ...
Sensor networks promise viable solutions to many monitoring problems. However, the practical deployment of sensor networks faces many challenges imposed by real-world demands. Sen...
Bartosz Przydatek, Dawn Xiaodong Song, Adrian Perr...
In a federated digital library system, it is too expensive to query every accessible library. Resource selection is the task to decide to which libraries a query should be routed....
A “friend finder” is a Location Based Service (LBS) that informs users about the presence of participants in a geographical area. In particular, one of the functionalities of ...