—Content-based copy detection (CBCD) is one of the emerging multimedia applications for which there is a need of a concerted effort from the database community and the computer ...
Many parallel systems offer a simple view of memory: all storage cells are addresseduniformly. Despite a uniform view of the memory, the machines differsignificantly in theirmemo...
Many vertical search tasks such as local search focus on specific domains. The meaning of relevance in these verticals is domain-specific and usually consists of multiple well-d...
Changsung Kang, Xuanhui Wang, Yi Chang, Belle L. T...
This paper considers distributed systems, defined as a collection of components interacting through interfaces. Components, interfaces and distributed systems are modeled as Petri...
Location-based services (LBS) are currently receiving world-wide attention as a consequence of the massive usage of mobile devices, but such location services require scalable dis...