Recording the location of people using location-acquisition technologies, such as GPS, allows generating life patterns, which associate people to places they frequently visit. Con...
An important issue arising from large scale data integration is how to efficiently select the top-K ranking answers from multiple sources while minimizing the transmission cost. T...
Since the approval of IEEE LOM Draft Standard and the advance of network-driven learning technology, a large number of resource database constructors, content developers and learn...
Resource discovery is a problem common to almost all distributed systems. Instead of resulting in a one or a small number of discovery mechanisms, completely different and incompa...
The supercomputer center, digital library, and archival storage communities have common persistent archival storage requirements. Each of these communities is building software in...