Ordering and ranking items of different types are important tasks in various applications, such as query processing and scientific data mining. A total order for the items can be ...
Abstract The notorious "dimensionality curse" is a wellknown phenomenon for any multi-dimensional indexes attempting to scale up to high dimensions. One well-known approa...
Pervasive computing environments have traditionally used distributed sensors to gather user context. EPC (Electronic Product Code) information extracted from RFID tags could addit...
The publish-subscribe paradigm is an effective approach for data publishers to asynchronously disseminate relevant data to a large number of data subscribers. A lot of recent res...
Business intelligence is a business management term used to describe applications and technologies which are used to gather, provide access to and analyze data and information abo...