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Due to the growing use of XML data format in global information, an effective XML data management system is needed. An Enabled XML DB is one of the recent widely accepted approaches to store XML documents. This ability coupled with the increase use of XML data in different areas have triggered the need for a better method to structure a large data in order to improve query performance. Issues concerning...
The Bloom filter is a data structure which the characteristics of contents is expressed by a bit pattern. The Bloom filter has become attractive as one of the methods of looking up data in the distributed system. Since two or more keywords can be used in the method based on the Bloom filter, it is more flexible than the distributed hash table (DHT). Especially, the key aspect of the structured Bloom...
Location-based applications are becoming increasingly popular due to the wide spread of global positioning devices. One major concern in location-based applications is how to protect user privacy. A typical solution consists of three tiers: mobile users, trusted anonymizer, and service provider. The trusted anonymizer first needs to cloak the queries received from mobile users, then sends the cloaked...
The tremendous growth in the amount of available web services (WS) impulses many researchers on proposing recommender systems to help users discover services. Most of the proposed solutions analyzed query strings and web service descriptions to generate recommendations. However, text based recommendations approaches depend mainly on user's perspective, languages and notations which easily decrease...
Finding relevant and reliable information on the web is a non-trivial task. While internet search engines do find correct web pages with respect to a set of keywords, they often cannot ensure the relevance or reliability of their content. An emerging trend is to harness internet users in the spirit of Web 2.0, to discern and personalize relevant and reliable information. Users collaboratively search...
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