The web-services stack of standards is designed to support the reuse and interoperation of software components on the web. A critical step in the process of developing applications...
Vision systems for service robotics applications have to cope with varying environmental conditions, partial occlusions, complex backgrounds and a large number of distractors (clut...
—In the past few years, peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have become a promising paradigm for building a wide variety of distributed systems and applications. The most popular P2P app...
Nowadays, the information overload highlights the importance of personalization systems providing services according to users' interests and needs, as expressed by their User ...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...