The M-tree and its variants have been proved to provide an efficient similarity search in database environments. In order to further improve their performance, in this paper we pro...
The UCSB Allosphere is a 3-story-high spherical instrument in which virtual environments and performances can be experienced in full immersion. The space is now being equipped with...
Lightweight ontologies in the form of RDF vocabularies such as SIOC, FOAF, vCard, etc. are increasingly being used and exported by “serious” applications recently. Such vocabul...
A steganalysis system based on 2-D Markov chain of thresholded prediction-error image is proposed in this paper. Image pixels are predicted with their neighboring pixels, and the ...
Service-oriented computing (SOC) is viewed as the computing paradigm of the near future, allowing for the dynamic interaction of services provided by distributed business partners...