Image retrieval and image compression have been pursued separately in the past. Only little research has been conducted on a synthesis of the two by allowing image retrieval to be ...
Peer-to-peer systems recently captured the attention of practitioners and researchers as they provide an attractive alternative to client-server architectures. Peerto-peer enables...
The emphasis in object-oriented programs is on defining abstractions that have both state and behavior. This emphasis causes a shift in focus from software units to the way softw...
With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute s...
Music Information Retrieval has a longer history than most people realise, with systems developed in the 1960's. The field has its roots in information retrieval, musicology ...