Assessing the potential property and social impacts of an event, such as tornado or wild fire, continues to be a challenging research area. From financial markets to disaster mana...
In this paper we investigate how consistency can be ensured for replicated continuous interactive media, i.e., replicated media which change their state in reaction to user initia...
The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search ...
User generated content that appears on weblogs, wikis and social networks has been increasing at an unprecedented rate. The wealth of information produced by individuals from diff...
In the 2003, more camera phones were sold worldwide than digital cameras. With this new platform, we can leverage regularities in the spatio-temporal context and social community ...