The Internet brings us access to multimedia databases with billions of data instances. The massive amount of data available to researchers and application developers brings both o...
Finding a person in a public place, such as in a library, conference hotel, or shopping mall, can be difficult. The difficulty arises from not knowing where the person may be at t...
Ionut Constandache, Xuan Bao, Martin Azizyan, Romi...
Traditional location-based services recommend nearest objects to the user by considering their spatial proximity. However, an object not only has its distance but also has its dir...
We study functional and multivalued dependencies over SQL tables with NOT NULL constraints. Under a no-information interpretation of null values we develop tools for reasoning. We...
Ambient Inteligence aims to create smart spaces providing services in a transparent and non-intrusive fashion, so context awareness and user adaptation are key issues. Speech can ...