In this paper we propose a new approach to capture the inclination towards a certain election candidate from the contents of blogs and to explain why that inclination may be so. T...
This paper presents a new model for understanding human behavior. In this model (FBM), behavior is a product of three factors: motivation, ability, and triggers, each of which has...
This article presents a method aiming at quantifying the visual similarity between an image and a class model. This kind of problem is recurrent in many applications such as objec...
We introduce a new paradigm for outsourcing the durability property of a multi-client transactional database to an untrusted service provider. Specifically, we enable untrusted s...
Frame-skipping videos usually appear in wireless video sensor networks which have wirelessly interconnected devices that are able to ubiquitously retrieve video content from the e...