—This paper focuses on Audio Event Detection (AED), a research area which aims to substantially enhance the access to audio in multimedia content. With the ever-growing quantity ...
Virginia Barbosa, Thomas Pellegrini, Miguel Bugalh...
Distributed data management systems consist of peers that store, exchange and process data in order to collaboratively achieve a common goal, such as evaluate some query. We study...
Provenance in scientific workflows is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, recording information about the module executions used to produce a data item, as well as the parame...
Susan B. Davidson, Sanjeev Khanna, Sudeepa Roy, Ju...
A raw object is partially initialized, with only some fields set to legal values. It may violate its object invariants, such as that a given field is non-null. Programs often ma...
Abstract—Due to the emergence of Cognitive Radio, a special type of heterogeneous networks attracts increasing interest recently, in which a secondary network composed of cogniti...