At the present time, several shortcomings prevent the more effective use and more intense application of web information systems. Recent developments that are subsumed by the term...
This paper discusses the design of audio games, a quite new computer game category that originates from games for players with visual impairments, as well as mainstream music game...
The ability of fast similarity search at large scale is of great importance to many Information Retrieval (IR) applications. A promising way to accelerate similarity search is sem...
Automatically generating location overviews in the form of both visual and textual descriptions is highly desired for online services such as travel planning, to provide attractiv...
Software transactional memory (STM) is an emerging concurrency control mechanism for shared memory accesses. Early abort is one of the important techniques to improve the executio...