The Java language lacks the important notions of ownership (an object owns its representation to prevent unwanted aliasing) and immutability (the division into mutable, immutable,...
Yoav Zibin, Alex Potanin, Paley Li, Mahmood Ali, M...
—Mobile devices are becoming the largest sensor network around the world. They could be used to collect a large amount of data with little effort and cost which is leading to a p...
Automatic surveillance of a scene in a broad sense comprises one of the core modules of pervasive applications. Typically, multiple cameras are installed in an area to identify ev...
Vassilis Kolias, Ioannis Giannoukos, Christos Anag...
Graphs are of growing importance in modeling complex structures such as chemical compounds, proteins, images, and program dependence. Given a query graph Q, the subgraph isomorphi...
We introduce the proximity rank join problem, where we are given a set of relations whose tuples are equipped with a score and a real-valued feature vector. Given a target feature...