Today many applications routinely generate large quantities of data. The data often takes the form of (time) series, or more generally streams, i.e. an ordered sequence of records...
Abstract. A large amount of biological knowledge today is only available from full-text research papers. Since neither manual database curators nor users can keep up with the rapid...
Web services composition is emerging as a promising technology for the effective automation of businessto-business collaborations. It allows organizations to form alliances by con...
Advances in computer and telecommunication technologies have made mobile computing a reality. However, greater mobility implies a more tenuous network connection and a higher rate...
The need of using spatial vector data for web-based and mobile applications has been increasing rapidly. Vector spatial data is difficult to generalise (that is, to derive a suita...