This paper addresses Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), focusing on developing a hidden semantic concept discovery methodology to address effective semanticsintensive image ret...
Active database management systems have been developed for applications needing an automatic reaction in response to certain events. Events can be simple in nature or complex. Com...
We present a randomized Byzantine Agreement (BA) protocol with an expected running time of O(log n) rounds, in a synchronous full-information network of n players. For any constan...
Web services are expected to be the key technology in enabling the next installment of the Web in the form of the Service Web. In this paradigm shift, Web services would be treated...
As a vision for the future of the Web, the Semantic Web is an open, constantly changing and collaborative environment. Hence it is reasonable to expect that knowledge sources in th...