In recent years, with the rapid proliferation of digital images, the need to search and retrieve the images accurately, efficiently, and conveniently is becoming more acute. Automa...
There is an increasing need of development of automatic tools to annotate images for effective image searching in digital libraries. In this paper, we present a novel probabilistic...
Music information retrieval is becoming very important with the ever-increasing growth of music content in digital libraries, peer-to-peer systems and the internet. While it is ea...
Bin Cui, H. V. Jagadish, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee T...
Hybrid peer-to-peer architectures use special nodes to provide directory services for regions of the network (“regional directory services”). Hybrid peer-to-peer architectures...
Voting (or rank aggregation) is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. One important voting rule is the Slater rule. It selects a ranking of the alte...