We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
In this paper we investigate the retrieval of semantic events that occur in broadcast sports footage. We do so by considering the spatio-temporal behaviour of an object in the foot...
Abstract. Discretionary Access Control (DAC) systems provide powerful mechanisms for resource management based on the selective distribution of capabilities to selected classes of ...
The two main approaches to find data in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are unstructured networks using flooding and structured networks using a distributed index. A distributed index i...
To date, the majority of Web search engines have provided simple keyword search interfaces that present the results as a ranked list of hyperlinks. More recently researchers have b...