Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
The trend towards outsourcing increases the number of documents stored at external service providers. This storage model, however, raises privacy and security concerns because the...
Many location-based applications require constant monitoring of k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) queries over moving objects within a geographic area. Existing approaches to this problem...
In this paper we present a novel framework for generic object class detection by integrating Kernel PCA with AdaBoost. The classifier obtained in this way is invariant to changes...
— Meetings are a very important part of everyday life for professionals working in universities, companies or governmental institutions. We have designed a physical awareness sys...