We present PhoneGuide – an enhanced museum guidance approach that uses camera-equipped mobile phones and on-device object recognition. Our main technical achievement is a simple...
Distributed databases and other networked information systems use copies or mirrors to reduce latency and to increase availability. Copies need to be refreshed. In a loosely coupl...
In this paper, we study query processing in a distributed text database. The novelty is a real distributed architecture implementation that offers concurrent query service. The di...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...
Abstract—In this contribution, the performance of a multiuser system is analyzed in the context of frequency selective fading channels. Using game theoretic tools, a useful frame...
—The growing popularity of social media in recent years has resulted in the creation of an enormous amount of user-developed content. While information is readily available, ther...