The perception of transparent objects from images is known to be a very hard problem in vision. Given a single image, it is difficult to even detect the presence of transparent o...
In this paper, we take an availability-centric view on quality of service (QoS) and propose a model and mechanisms for studying the effectiveness of realistic replication schemes ...
Web pages (and resources, in general) can be characterized according to their geographical locality. For example, a web page with general information about wildflowers could be c...
Luis Gravano, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Richard ...
Abiteboul et al. initiated the systematic study of distributed XML documents consisting of several logical parts, possibly located on different machines. The physical distributio...
The problem of mining spatiotemporal patterns is finding sequences of events that occur frequently in spatiotemporal datasets. Spatiotemporal datasets store the evolution of object...