International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing

Location Based Service (LBS) is gaining popularity. As one fundamental LBS service, range search returns all Point of Interests (POIs) within a user-specified range. However, people leave their location privacy at risks when using range search. How to provide a high-quality range search service while...

Twitter, Social Networking Site, becomes most popular microblogging service and people have started publishing data on the use of it in natural disasters. Twitter has also created the opportunities for first responders to know the critical information and work effective reactions for impacted communities....

Bare bones particle swarm optimization is a parameter-free swarm intelligence algorithm which is famous for easy applying. It has aroused wide concern of academic circle on its principles and applications in recent years. However, losing the diversity quickly still causes the premature convergence in...

Web services bring more conveniences for users and developers. However, it makes user face the problem of service information explosion. The personalized service recommendation solves the problem. This paper proposes a mechanism to evaluate Web service composition’s reliability which bases on user context...

Compare the WSN with other conventional network system, the changing or charging the existing battery of sensor node within WSN is a tough job. Therefore, since last decade the effort has been made to design and introduce a large number of communication protocol for WSN with given concern on the performance...

In this research we propose to use ontology to improve the performance of an EBMT system for low-resource language pair. The EBMT architecture use chunk-string templates (CSTs) and unknown word translation mechanism. CSTs consist of a chunk in source-language, a string in target-language, and word alignment...