Current developments show that tomorrow’s information systems and applications will no longer be based on monolithic architectures that encompass all the functionality. Rather, t...
The idea of representing images using a bag of visual words is currently popular in object category recognition. Since this representation is typically constructed using unsupervi...
Major research challenges in discovering Web services include, provisioning of services across multiple or heterogeneous registries, differentiating between services that share si...
When a database query has a large number of results, the user can only be shown one page of results at a time. One popular approach is to rank results such that the "best&quo...
Current methods for selectivity estimation fall into two broad categories, synopsis-based and sampling-based. Synopsis-based methods, such as histograms, incur minimal overhead at ...