Power consumption has become an increasingly important constraint in high-performancecomputing systems, shifting the focus from peak performance towards improving power efficiency...
: Information Technology (IT) has evolved over time from its traditional use as administrative support towards a more strategic role to enforce business processes (BP). But several...
: This paper outlines some basic characteristics of digital rights management (DRM) systems, as well as the ways that DRM systems can threaten user privacy. The author asserts that...
Summarization is an important task in data mining. A major challenge over the past years has been the efficient construction of fixed-space synopses that provide a deterministic q...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of automatic audio surveillance. This aspect of the surveillance, which extends the more investigated area of video surveillance, can be ...