A large number of computer tasks can be modeled as the search for an object near a given query. From multimedia databases to learning algorithms, data mining and pattern recognitio...
Several real-world applications need to effectively manage and reason about large amounts of data that are inherently uncertain. For instance, pervasive computing applications mus...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Eirinaios Michelakis, Minos N. Gar...
This paper focuses on the optimization of the navigation through voluminous subsumption hierarchies of topics employed by Portal Catalogs like Netscape Open Directory (ODP). We ad...
With recent advances in wireless communication and position technologies, it became possible to collect and record trajectories of moving objects. Thus, many services in road netw...
Xu Jianqiu, Victor Teixeira de Almeida, Qin Xiaoli...
In this paper, we presented an image search service for mobile users. It can be used to acquire related information by taking and sending pictures to the server, for example, gett...