Word-based Huffman coding has widespread use in information retrieval systems. Besides its compressing power, it also enables the implementation of both indexing and searching sch...
In the ubiquitous computing environment, we believe that P2P-based context-aware application utilizing sensing data is important. However, since sensors are not placed under the c...
WAND is a meta-data management system that provides a file-system tree for users of an internet based P2P network. The tree is robust and retains its structure even when nodes (pe...
Traditional access control mechanisms rely on a reference monitor to mediate access to protected resources. Reference monitors are inherently centralized and existing attempts to ...
Query processing in traditional information management systems has moved from an exact match model to more flexible paradigms allowing cooperative retrieval by aggregating the dat...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...