We are witnessing a revival of Storage Service Providers in the form of new vendors as well as traditional players. While storage outsourcing is cost-effective, many companies are...
—In this paper we present a scalable and distributed system for image retrieval based on visual features and annotated text. This system is the core of the SAPIR project. Its arc...
Mining graph data is an increasingly popular challenge, which has practical applications in many areas, including molecular substructure discovery, web link analysis, fraud detect...
Location is one of the most important contexts used in the applications in the pervasive computing environments . It helps the application do the right thing at the right place. O...
Multimedia applications today constitute a significant fraction of the workload running on portable devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and MP3 players. However, the processors i...