: My main aim in this paper is to clarify the concepts of referential success and of referential continuity that are so crucial to the scientific realism debate. I start by conside...
— In location-based, mobile continual query (CQ) systems, two key measures of quality of service (QoS) are: freshness and accuracy. To achieve freshness, the CQ server must perfo...
Abstract—Multimedia social network is a network infrastructure in which the social network users share multimedia contents with all different purposes. Analyzing user behavior in...
Short URLs have become ubiquitous. Especially popular within social networking services, short URLs have seen a significant increase in their usage over the past years, mostly du...
The general setting of regression analysis is to identify a relationship between a response variable Y and one or several explanatory variables X by using a learning sample. In a ...