The highly variable and dynamic word usage in social media presents serious challenges for both research and those commercial applications that are geared towards blogs or other u...
Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware platforms for eventbased distributed systems often provide many configurable policies that affect end-to-end quality of service (QoS). Altho...
Joe Hoffert, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha S. Gokh...
In this paper, we tackle the problem of object detection and tracking in a new and challenging domain of wide area surveillance. This problem poses several challenges: large camera...
This paper describes the results of an investigation into the differences and similarities between the blogging techniques of UK and US bloggers undertaken in the winter and sprin...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...