With the proliferation of inexpensive cameras and the availability of high-speed wired and wireless networks, systems of distributed cameras are becoming an enabling technology fo...
The concept of location has become very popular in many applications on the Web, in particular for those which aim at connecting the real world with resources on the Web. However,...
Distributed applications or workflows need to access and use compute, storage and network resources simultaneously or chronologically coordinated respectively. Examples are distri...
We develop an algorithm for parallel disk sorting, whose I/O cost approaches the lower bound and that guarantees almost perfect overlap between I/O and computation. Previous algor...
Opinion mining techniques add another dimension to search and summarization technology by actually identifying the author's opinion about a subject, rather than simply identi...