Image annotation has been an active research topic in the recent years due to its potentially large impact on both image understanding and web/database image search. In this paper...
This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...
In emotion recognition, a widely-used method to reconciliate disagreement between multiple human evaluators is to perform majority-voting on their assigned class labels. Instead, ...
Most of the existing reachability indices perform well on small- to medium- size graphs, but reach a scalability bottleneck around one million vertices/edges. As graphs become inc...
We consider the problem of designing automated strategies for interactions with human subjects, where the humans must be rewarded for performing certain tasks of interest. We focu...