The rapid growth of on-line information has created a surge of interest in tools that are able to extract information from on-line documents. Information extraction (IE) is the process of pulling desired pieces of ...

Distributed processing has more and more important and attractive with progress in the areas of computer network and distributed system. Database management system typically allows many transactions to access the same ...

Cloud is a relatively new concept and so it is unsurprising that the information assurance, data protection, network security and privacy concerns have yet to be fully addressed. The cloud allows users to avoid upfront ...