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Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
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Representation and utilization of non-functional requirements for information system design
The complexity and usefulness of large information systems are determined partly by their functionality, i.e., what they do, and partly by global constraints on their accuracy, security, cost, user-friendlines...
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Barriers to Implementing Quality Management in Hong Kong’s Hotels
Quality is acquiring a new meaning both in the manufacturing and service sectors. The push for quality has been driven by technological innovations. In turn, better communication systems have resulted in the r...
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Quick Elimination of Non-Interference Polytopes in Virtual Environments
The problem of collision detection is fundamental to interactive applications such as computer animation and virtual environments. In these fields, prompt recognition of possible impacts is important for compu...
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Controlled decomposition strategy for complex spatial objects
The efficient query processing for complex spatial objects is one of most challenging requirements in many non-traditional applications such as geographic information systems, computer-aided design and multime...
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Analysis of nearest neighbor query performance in multidimensional index structures
A frequently encountered type of query in geographic information systems and multimedia database systems is to find k nearest neighbors to a given point in a multidimensional space. Examples would be to find t...
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Architecture of Object Web
It is quite remarkable how widespread and popular the Internet is nowadays. The use of Web browsers is no longer restricted to only the scientific and academic communities. With increased popularity, users als...
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Push-Based News Delivery with CORBA
In today’s fast paced world, information and data changes far too rapidly. The capability to get updated information and news is an important and decisive factor in business and finance. With Internet’s popula...
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Preserve Discovered Linguistic Patterns Valid in Volatility Data Environment
Many data mining techniques have been developed and shown to be successful in financial domains. A further aim is to make sense of numerical data through a human-friendly way, by which general patterns are ext...
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Multi-way Spatial Joins Using R-Trees: Methodology and Performance Evaluation
We propose a new multi-way spatial join algorithm called M-way R-tree join which synchronously traverses M R-trees. The Mway R-tree join can be considered as a generalization of the 2-way R-tree join. Although a ...
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Discovery of Generalized Association Rules with Multiple Minimum Supports
Mining association rules at multiple concept levels leads to the discovery of more concrete knowledge. Nevertheless, setting an appropriate minsup for cross-level itemsets is still a non-trivial task. Besides,...
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Web-Based Cluster Analysis System for China and Hong Kong’s Stock Market
Data mining or knowledge discovery in database (KDD) is motivated by large amounts of computerized data and has been attracted a lot of interest in various areas. One area is to extract useful and predictive i...
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Mcast: A Multicast Multimedia Communication Software Development Platform
The Internet explosion is driving the need for distributed multimedia presentations (DMPs), which provide multiple users with QoS-controlled multimedia services such as media distribution and virtual classroom...
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Mining of Association Rules in Text Databases Using Inverted Hashing and Pruning
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm named Inverted Hashing and Pruning (IHP) for mining association rules between words in text databases. The characteristics of text databases are quite different from t...
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Efficient Cache Management Protocol Based on Data Locality in Mobile DBMSs
In mobile client-server database systems, caching of frequently accessed data is an important technique that will reduce the contention on the narrow bandwidth wireless channel. As the server in mobile environ...
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A Construction of the Adapted Ontology Server in EC
Ontology is an essential element for the agent system. The agent can share its knowledge and communicate with each other with it. As the agent system is more widely applied, the importance of ontology is incre...
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Declustering Web Content Indices for Parallel Information Retrieval
We consider an information retrieval (IR) system on a low-cost highperformance PC cluster environment. The IR system replicates the Web pages locally, it is indexed by the inverted-index file (IIF), and the ve...
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An Interactive Audio and Video Station over Internet
An Interactive Audio and Video Station named IAVS over Internet is presented in this paper. The IAVS system is a personal audio and video multicast transmission system and provides an interactive two-way commu...
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A Study on Preconditioning Multiwavelet Systems for Image Compression
We present a study on applications of multiwavelet analysis to image compression, where filter coefficents form matrices. As a multiwavelet filter bank has multiple channels of inputs, we investigate the data ...
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Improved MPEG-4 Visual Texture Coding Using Perceptual Dithering for Transparent Image Coding
MPEG- VTC provides coding efficiency using the zerotree entropy coding (ZTC) to remove the statistical redundancy among the coefficients within each wavelet tree. To improve the coding efficiency of ZTC, we pr...
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Agent-Based Approach to e-Learning: An Architectural Framework
The World Wide Web (WWW) provides new opportunities for online education on the Internet. With other network tools being applied to the Web, it can create a virtual learning environment to bring together a com...
