The aim of this work is to devise an effective method for static summarization of home video sequences. Based on the premise that the user watching a summary is interested in peop...
Email is a key communication tool for collaborative workgroups. In this paper, we investigate how team leadership roles can be inferred from a collection of email messages exchang...
Over the past decade there has been a surge of academic and industrial interest in optimistic concurrency, i.e. the speculative parallel execution of code regions that have the se...
As the result of interactions between visitors and a web site, an http log file contains very rich knowledge about users on-site behaviors, which, if fully exploited, can better c...
We consider the problem of rewriting a query efficiently using materialized views. In the context of information integration, this problem has received significant attention in th...