Although distributed object computing has developed rapidly over the past decade, and is now becoming commercially important, there remain key application areas inadequately suppo...
We introduce the challenge problem for generic video indexing to gain insight in intermediate steps that affect performance of multimedia analysis methods, while at the same time...
Cees Snoek, Marcel Worring, Jan van Gemert, Jan-Ma...
Volunteer Computing is becoming a new paradigm not only for the Computational Grid, but also for institutions using production-level Data Grids because of the enormous storage pot...
Jesus Luna, Michail Flouris, Manolis Marazakis, An...
Abstract: XML documents are widely used as a generic container for textual contents. As they are increasingly growing in size, XML databases have come up to efficiently store and q...
This paper explores how process pipeline scheduling may become a viable strategy for executing workflows. It first details a workflow optimization and execution algorithm that redu...
Melissa Lemos, Marco A. Casanova, Antonio L. Furta...