Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Similarity joins have been studied as key operations in multiple application domains, e.g., record linkage, data cleaning, multimedia and video applications, and phenomena detectio...
Reputation mechanisms are a key technique to trust assessment in large-scale decentralized systems. The effectiveness of reputation-based trust management fundamentally relies on ...
This paper is concerned with synthetic agents interacting with virtual environments, called animated creatures. The animated creatures are articulated graphical gures that are eq...
3D video is the ultimate image medium recording dynamic visual events in the real world as is. Recorded object behaviors can be observed from any viewpoint, because 3D video recor...