Abstract. Trademark image retrieval is becoming an important application for logo registry, veri cation, and design. There are two major problems about the current approaches to tr...
Weblogs have recently emerged as a popular means of sharing information on the Web. While they effectively foster the networking of participants on a one-to-one basis, so far they...
Development of today's advanced applications is increasingly being accomplished using multi-faceted modeling. For example, the areas of simulation and workflow modeling genera...
Developing large-scale distributed applications can be a daunting task. One of the problems that application developers are confronted with is the distribution of data, processes, ...
Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...