Sensor networks and other distributed information systems (such as the Web) must frequently access data that has a high per-attribute acquisition cost, in terms of energy, latency...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Wei Hong, Samuel ...
The ability to model the temporal dimension is essential to many applications. Furthermore, the rate of increase in database size and response time requirements has outpaced advan...
Jose Alvin G. Gendrano, Bruce C. Huang, Jim M. Rod...
The problem of automatic recognition of human activities is among the most important and challenging open areas of research in Computer Vision. This paper presents a new approach ...
Arcangelo Distante, I. Gnoni, Marco Leo, Paolo Spa...
We investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., the identifying name or logo that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. This r...
The wealth of information on the web makes it an attractive resource for seeking quick answers to simple, factual questions such as "who was the first American in space?"...