In Japan, the “Period of Integrated Study” program to enhance practical skills began in elementary and secondary education in 2002. Most goals of this program involve meta-abil...
We present a novel, yet simple algorithm for clustering large collections of digital images. The method is applicable to consumer digital photo libraries, where it can be used to o...
In this paper we present and evaluate uncoordinated on-line algorithms for simultaneous storage and replication load-balancing in DHT-based peer-to-peer systems. We compare our ap...
The notion of spatio-temporal multi-granularity is fundamental when modeling objects in GIS applications in that it supports the representation of the temporal evolutions of these ...
Today ontology languages present a syntax which looks not “natural” and are lacking of built-in primitives (i.e., modeling notions) domain experts are familiar with. In this pa...