With the spread of the Internet the computing model on server systems is undergoing several important changes. Recent research ideas concerning dynamic operating system extensibil...
Geographic information systems and online mapping technologies have been widely used for supporting participatory decision-making in local communities. However, limited studies ha...
Many organizations today have more than very large databases; they have databases that grow without limit at a rate of several million records per day. Mining these continuous dat...
Similarity search in metric spaces is a general paradigm that can be used in several application fields. It can also be effectively exploited in content-based image retrieval syst...
TOP-SURF is an image descriptor that combines interest points with visual words, resulting in a high performance yet compact descriptor that is designed with a wide range of conte...