The increased use of video data sets for multimedia-based applications has created a demand for strong video database support, including efficient methods for handling the content...
Walid G. Aref, Moustafa A. Hammad, Ann Christine C...
The proprietary nature of existing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) means they are closed and do not naturally cooperate, resulting in “islands” of CDNs. Finding ways for dist...
Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan, James Broberg, Kris Buben...
The tension between privacy and awareness has been a persistent difficulty in distributed environments that support opportunistic and informal interaction. For example, many aware...
Paper forgery is among the leading causes of corruption in many developing regions [2]. In this paper, we introduce PaperSpeckle, a robust system that leverages the natural random...
The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...