A continuous top-k query retrieves the k most preferred objects in a data stream according to a given preference function. These queries are important for a broad spectrum of appl...
Avani Shastri, Di Yang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Mat...
Simulation is a low cost alternative to experimentation on real-world physical systems. Grid technology enables coordinated use of and secure access to distributed computing resou...
Xinjun Chen, Wentong Cai, Stephen John Turner, Yon...
Synchronous groupware depends on the assumption that people are fully connected to the others in the group, but there are many situations (network delay, network outage, or explic...
Carl Gutwin, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Christopher Wo...
Because of its inter-organisational, collaborative use of computational resources, grid computing presents a severe interoperability challenge to grid application developers. Diffe...
Dirk Gorissen, Gunther Stuer, Kurt Vanmechelen, Ja...
Distance metric learning has been widely investigated in machine learning and information retrieval. In this paper, we study a particular content-based image retrieval application ...