Mobile terminals (cellular phones, PDAs, palmtops etc.) emerge as a new class of small-scale, ad-hoc service providers that share data and functionality via mobile web services’...
The proliferation of new modes of communication and collaboration has resulted in an explosion of digital information. To turn this challenge into an opportunity, the IT industry ...
Similarity search in metric spaces is a general paradigm that can be used in several application fields. It can also be effectively exploited in content-based image retrieval syst...
Cache groups are a powerful concept for database caching, which is used to relieve the backend database load and to keep referenced data close to the application programs at the &q...
Recent research has shown that one can use Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) to build scalable, robust and efficient applications. One question that is often left unanswered is that ...