Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) often consist of applications that access shared resources such as databases. Since centralized systems may have a great impact on the system...
Many content-based retrieval systems (CBIRS) describe images using the SIFT local features because of their very robust recognition capabilities. While SIFT features proved to cop...
We present a mobile product recognition system for the camera-phone. By snapping a picture of a product with a camera-phone, the user can retrieve online information of the produc...
Sam S. Tsai, David M. Chen, Vijay Chandrasekhar, G...
Finding the core members of a virtual community is an important problem in community analysis. Here we presented an simulated annealing algorithm to solve this problem by optimizi...
We describe improvements to the use of semantic lexicons by a state-of-the-art query interpretation system powering a major search engine. We successfully compute concept label im...