Abstract Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has attracted substantial attention as a software
delivery and service model in a cloud computing environment. SaaS delivery can help …

Recently, there has been a significant growth in pervasive computing and ubiquitous
sensing which strives to develop and deploy sensing technology all around us. We are also …

In a publish-subscribe system based on filtering of XML documents, subscribers specify their
interests with profiles expressed in the XPath language. The system processes a stream of …

In this research work, a Thought Controlled Intelligent robot chair with communication aid
has been developed. A simple brain wave data acquisition protocol has been developed …

In this dissertation, I present a table-driven streaming XML (Extensible Markup Language)
parsing and searching technique, called TDX, and investigate related techniques. TDX …

In a publish-subscribe system based on XML filtering, the subscriber profiles are usually
specified by filters written in the XPath language. The system processes the stream of XML …

We consider the problem of efficiently evaluating a large number of XPath expressions,
especially in the case when they define subscriber profiles for filtering of XML documents …