Abstract. Gender recognition problem has not been extensively studied in situations where the face cannot be accurately detected and it also can be partially occluded. In this cont...
—This paper presents a middleware platform for the provision of services in disconnected MANETs, focusing on service invocation. This middleware exploits content-based communicat...
The Web Services world consists of loosely-coupled distributed systems which adapt to ad-hoc changes by the use of service descriptions that enable opportunistic service discovery...
In a packet switching based scenario, optical technologies can not completely overcome the problem of insufficient network capacity, due to limitations produced by the presence of ...
Current search engines crawl the Web, download content, and digest this content locally. For multimedia content, this involves considerable volumes of data. Furthermore, this proc...