Abstract— Following Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing and calm technology, computer systems should run in the background, preferably without the user noticing it at ...
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...
A system to retrieve images using a description of the image intensity surface is presented. Gaussian derivative lters at several scales are applied to the image and low order 2D ...
Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) are a natural extension of heterogeneous database systems. One of the main tasks in such systems is efficient query processing. Insisting on co...
The past few years have seen an explosive growth in scientific and regulatory documents related to the patent system. Relevant information is siloed into many heterogeneous and di...
Siddharth Taduri, Gloria T. Lau, Kincho H. Law, Ha...