The increasing use of multimedia streams nowadays necessitates the development of efficient and effective methodologies for manipulating databases storing them. Moreover, content-...
RDF is the first W3C standard for enriching information resources of the Web with detailed meta data. The semantics of RDF data is defined using a RDF schema. The most expressiv...
In this paper, an interactive image retrieval scheme using MPEG-7 visual descriptors is proposed. The performance of image retrieval systems is still limited due to semantic gap, w...
This paper presents a method for admission control and request scheduling for multiply-tiered e-commerce Web sites, achieving both stable behavior during overload and improved res...
Sameh Elnikety, Erich M. Nahum, John M. Tracey, Wi...
Traditionally, collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms used for recommendation operate on complete knowledge. This makes these algorithms hard to employ in a decentralized contex...