Berners-Lee’s compelling vision of a Semantic Web is hindered by a chicken-and-egg problem, which can be best solved by a bootstrapping method — creating enough structured dat...
In this paper, we discuss meetings as an application domain for multimedia content analysis. Meeting databases are a rich data source suitable for a variety of audio, visual and m...
When integrating data from multiple sources, a key task that online communities often face is to match the schemas of the data sources. Today, such matching often incurs a huge wor...
We propose a new cryptographic technique, Acknowledgment Compression, permitting senders of multicast data to verify that all interested parties have either received the data or l...
Abstract. The unpredictable run-time configurations of dynamic, datadriven application systems require flexible simulation components that can adapt to changes in the number of i...