There is an increasing need of development of automatic tools to annotate images for effective image searching in digital libraries. In this paper, we present a novel probabilistic...
Emotions play an important role in human decision making. This often has a beneficial effect, and so it is desirable to explore whether emotions can also play a role in agent dec...
Fahd Saud Nawwab, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Paul E...
“Peer-to-peer” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a...
Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL - like projection with duplicate elimination, join, ordering, group by and aggregations - are efficiently processed using a sorted...
Attentive systems pay attention to what users do so that they can attend to what users need. Such systems track user behavior, model user interests, and anticipate user desires an...
Paul P. Maglio, Rob Barrett, Christopher S. Campbe...