Semantic technologies promise to solve many challenging problems of the present Web applications. As they achieve a feasible level of maturity, they become increasingly accepted i...
Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, ...
According to a recent survey made by Nielsen NetRatings, searching on news articles is one of the most important activity online. Indeed, Google, Yahoo, MSN and many others have p...
Gianna M. Del Corso, Antonio Gulli, Francesco Roma...
We present a new technique, early phase termination, for eliminating idle processors in parallel computations that use barrier synchronization. This technique simply terminates ea...
Time is an important data dimension with distinct characteristics that is common across many application domains. This demands specialized methods in order to support proper analy...
Wolfgang Aigner, Alessio Bertone, Silvia Miksch, C...
Abstract: Multimedia databases are increasingly common in science, business, entertainment and many other applications. Their size and high dimensionality of features are major cha...