Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
Parallelism can be used for major performance improvement in large Data warehouses (DW) with performance and scalability challenges. A simple low-cost shared-nothing architecture ...
This paper presents an architecture and a methodology for agent-based Web service discovery and automated composition. We assume that Web services are described with declarative sp...
Treating visual object tracking as foreground and background classification problem has attracted much attention in the past decade. Most methods adopt mean shift or brute force s...
This paper addresses the problem of photo time-stamp detection and recognition, which is to determine the time a photo was taken. Since the time-stamp is exposed together with the...