Ranking queries are essential tools to process large amounts of probabilistic data that encode exponentially many possible deterministic instances. In many applications where unce...
Over the last couple of years, "Cloud Computing" or "Elastic Computing" has emerged as a compelling and successful paradigm for internet scale computing. One o...
A peer-to-peer complementary currency can be a powerful tool for promoting exchanges that make use of underutilized computing resources in a trusted way. i-WAT[11] is a proposed s...
Musical scores are traditionally retrieved by title, composer or subject classification. Just as multimedia computer systems increase the range of opportunities available for pres...
Rodger J. McNab, Lloyd A. Smith, Ian H. Witten, Cl...
Until recently, issues in image retrieval have been handled in DBMSs and in computer vision as separate research works. Nowadays, the trend is towards integrating the two approach...
Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir, David Coquil, Lion...