Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
Information agents are computational software systems that provides transparent access to many different information sources in the Internet, and to be able to retrieve, analyze, ...
The quality of information is crucial for decision making in many mission-critical applications such as battlefield operations and intelligence analysis. However, as the system b...
Bin Yu, Srikanth Kallurkar, Ganesh Vaidyanathan, D...
Users have been demanding information “anytime, anywhere”. The notion of accessing diverse and autonomous information repositories with different APIs is not accepted. This ha...
Recent popularity of interactive AJAX-based Web 2.0 applications has given rise to a new breed of security threats: JavaScript worms. In this paper we propose Spectator, the first...