As the telecommunications industry endeavours to reinvent itself, the effective management and exploitation of information, data delivered in context, is now the key weapon in gaining and retaining customers. The data management challenges in an environment of massively growing data volumes and complexity introduced by distributed processing are outlined. A framework and methodology for the man...

We describe a context-aware architecture under development at the Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications of the University of Trento. The middleware system described in this report can integrate various data about the user and his/her context (e.g., position) and provide them in a transparent and system-independent way via a SOAP interface to dynamic web pages and other client ap...

We introduce a model based on stochastic context-free grammars (SCFGs) that can construct small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) multiple alignments. The method takes into account both primary sequence and secondary structure basepairing interactions. We show that this method produces multiple alignments of quality close to hand edited ones and outperforms several other methods. We also introdu...