In this paper, we present the results of our work that seek to negotiate the gap between low-level features and high-level concepts in the domain of web document retrieval. This wo...
For a large-scale data-intensive environment, such as the World-Wide Web or data warehousing, we often make local copies of remote data sources. Due to limited network and computa...
Developing large-scale distributed applications can be a daunting task. One of the problems that application developers are confronted with is the distribution of data, processes, ...
Electronic negotiation experiments provide a rich source of information about relationships between the negotiators, their individual actions, and the negotiation dynami...
Estimates of predicate selectivities by database query optimizers often differ significantly from those actually encountered during query execution, leading to poor plan choices a...