In recent years, the amount of information on the Internet has increased exponentially developing great interest in selective information dissemination systems. The publish/subscribe paradigm is particularly suited for designing systems for routing information and requests according to their content throughout wide-area network of brokers. Current publish/subscribe systems use limited syntax-ba...

In this proposal, we introduce a scalable distributed publish/subscribe system for selective information dissemination. We propose two models A-ToPSS and G-ToPSS for two different matching problems: approximate matching and semantic matching. A-ToPSS aims at processing uncertainty information, while G-ToPSS aims at filtering graph-based metadata. We describe problems left in these two models an...

The purpose of the study was to identify and document technical knowledge and information gaps that can inform development of appropriate training programs for cane farmers. The study employed a survey research design; involving 105 small scale farmers in selected from eight Sub-counties of Kakamega County. Data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Pearson’s product m...