Abstract— Emergent wide-area distributed systems like computational grids present opportunities for large scientific applications. On these systems, communication mechanisms hav...
Recent advancements in video and audio codec technologies (e.g., RealVideo [18]) make multimedia streaming possible across a wide range of network conditions. With an increasing t...
Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Hoi-sheung Wilson So, Byungho...
Several research areas today overlap between the tracks of databases, information retrieval and knowledge management, such as natural language processing, semantic web, digital li...
Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
In this paper the authors describe Pundit, a course recommendation and search tool at Teachers College, Columbia University. The alpha prototype employs a novel combination of data...