Social annotation via so-called collaborative tagging describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of unstructured keywords to shared content. In this paper,...
—Information systems are expected to satisfy increasingly ambitious requirements, while reducing time–to–market has become a primary objective. This trend has necessitated th...
The web services technology provides an approach for developing distributed applications by using simple and well defined interfaces. Due to the flexibility of this architecture, ...
Jim Lau, Lau Cheuk Lung, Joni da Silva Fraga, Giul...
Audio segmentation has applications in a variety of contexts, such as audio information retrieval, automatic sound analysis, and as a pre-processing step in speech recognition. Ex...
Tara N. Sainath, Dimitri Kanevsky, Giridharan Iyen...
These last years, the evolution of nomadic terminals and mobile networks has yield to the development of the ubiquitous computing. In this context, actual query evaluation and opt...