Human-nameable visual attributes offer many advantages when used as mid-level features for object recognition, but existing techniques to gather relevant attributes can be ineffici...
: This paper presents a lightweight form of usage-centered design that has proved particularly effective in designing highly usable Webbased applications. Fully compatible with bot...
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
The growth of available entertainment information services, such as movies and CD listings, or travels and recreational activities, raises a need for personalization techniques for...
In Internet-scale distributed systems, replicationbased scheme has been widely deployed to increase the availability and efficiency of services. Hence, consistency maintenance amo...