Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been adopted as a building block for large-scale distributed systems. The upshot of this success is that their robust operation is even more imp...
This paper investigates the problem of retrieving Karaoke music by singing. The Karaoke music encompasses two audio channels in each track: one is a mix of vocal and background acc...
In contextual computing, where cues beyond direct user input are used to trigger computation, one of the most daunting challenges is inferring what the user is doing. For the doma...
Victoria Bellotti, Jim Thornton, Alvin Chin, Diane...
In this paper, we design recommender systems for weblogs based on the link structure among them. We propose algorithms based on refined random walks and spectral methods. First, w...
The Web contains a huge volume of unstructured data, which is difficult to manage. In digital libraries, on the other hand, information is explicitly organized, described, and ma...