The FAST gadget development environment allows users to graphically compose intelligent, i.e., semantically annotated gadgets from predefined building blocks and deploy them on var...
Automated photo tagging is essential to make massive unlabeled photos searchable by text search engines. Conventional image annotation approaches, though working reasonably well o...
Lei Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Ne...
Abstract In this paper we propose an extensible architecture for database engines where satellite databases are used to scale out and implement additional functionality for a centr...
Although the ever growing Web contain information to virtually every user’s query, it does not guarantee effectively accessing to those information. In many situations, the user...
Threads provide a useful programming model for asynchronous behavior because of their ability to encapsulate units of work that can then be scheduled for execution at runtime, bas...