Traditionally, collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms used for recommendation operate on complete knowledge. This makes these algorithms hard to employ in a decentralized contex...
Persistence - the storage and retrieval of application data from secondary storage media - is often used as a classical example of a crosscutting concern. It is widely assumed tha...
Today, information integration has assumed a completely different, complex connotation than what it used to be. The advent of the Internet, the proliferation of information source...
Modern databases allow mobile clients that subscribe to replicated data, to process the replica without requiring continuous connectivity, and to receive the updates while connecte...
It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...