Pervasive computing is by its nature open and extensible, and must integrate the information from a diverse range of sources. This leads to a problem of information exchange, so s...
An indexing model is the heart of an Information Retrieval (IR) system. Data structures such as term based inverted indices have proved to be very effective for IR using vector sp...
The Modular Information Provider (MIP) has been developed to systematically aggregate multiple sources of information for Grid information services (GIS). MIP undertakes the chall...
Shaowen Wang, Eric Shook, Anand Padmanabhan, Ranso...
: Physical and informational works are strongly interrelated in a business process. This facilitates modeling a business process as an integral part of a closed loop information an...
Large-scale distributed data management with P2P systems requires the existence of similarity operators for queries as we cannot assume that all users will agree on exactly the sa...