It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence between people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contact...
We propose a framework to learn scene semantics from surveillance videos. Using the learnt scene semantics, a video analyst can efficiently and effectively retrieve the hidden sem...
Truly ubiquitous computing poses new and significant challenges. A huge number of heterogeneous devices will interact to perform complex distributed tasks. One of the key aspects...
Nicola Bicocchi, Marco Mamei, Andrea Prati, Rita C...
InfoSleuth1is an agent-based system for information discovery and retrieval in a dynamic, open environment. This paper discusses InfoSleuth's multibroker design and implement...
Named entity disambiguation concerns linking a potentially ambiguous mention of named entity in text to an unambiguous identifier in a standard database. One approach to this task...