Visual tracking, in essence, deals with non-stationary data streams that change over time. While most existing algorithms are able to track objects well in controlled environments,...
Current ubiquitous computing environments provide many kinds of information. This information may be accessed by different users under varying conditions depending on various conte...
Abstract. Access control is a system-wide concern that has both a generic nature and an application dependent characteristic. It is generic as many functions must be protected with...
Many information retrieval systems use the inverted file as indexing structure. The inverted file, however, is not suited to supporting incremental updates when new documents are ...
The construction and maintenance of data warehouses (views) in large-scale environments composed of numerous distributed and evolving information sources (ISs) such as the WWW has ...