A taxonomy of approaches to preserve location privacy in location-based services
The ubiquity of smartphones and other location-aware hand-held devices has resulted in a dramatic increase in popularity of location-based services (LBS) tailored to users' locations. The comfort of LBS comes with a privacy cost. Various distressing ...
A similarity assessment method for discovering and adapting business services
The advent and achievement of new mobile technologies makes it possible to offer online services to people whenever and wherever they are. Location-based services, in particular, concentrate on providing users with information about points of interest ...
Going beyond completeness in information retrieval
The importance of information (or content) is becoming higher as computers penetrate everyday life. This has speeded up information management researches. We focus on information retrieval in this paper and present a classification of semantic-based ...
Updating XML views and querying XML views with update syntax
XML has become a standard medium for data exchange, and XML views are frequently used as an interface to relational database and XML data. Although building and querying XML views have received extensive attention, updating XML views is less studied. In ...
Xeena for schema: creating XML documents with a coordinated grammar tree
The vast heterogeneous network that is the World Wide Web requires common languages to facilitate the exchange and display of data and information in many forms. The Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developed the extensible markup language (XML) for this ...
Energy and mobility-aware topology control in heterogeneous mobile ad hoc networks
This paper studies the topology control in heterogeneous mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), where mobile nodes have different transmission ranges and moving speeds. We consider symmetric communication model where two nodes can communicate directly if and ...
Analysing dynamics of crop problems by applying text analysis methods on farm advisory data of eSagu<SUP align=right>TM</SUP>
By extending information and communication technologies, a personalised agricultural advisory system called eSagu<SUP align=right>TM</SUP> has been developed and operated for 1,051 cotton farms in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, during ...
A system for localising and searching objects to enhance self-directed practical learning
We are living in an era of knowledge explosion. The meaning of knowing has shifted from being able to remember and repeat information to being able to find and use it (Simon, 2000). Practical learning has been proved as an effective way to arouse ...
