—Millions of people are using the World Wide Web and are publishing content online. This user generated content contains many information relevant not only to marketing but to co...
Sort can be speeded up on parallel computers by dividing and computing data individually in parallel. Merge sort can be parallelized, however, the conventional algorithm implement...
It is known that if a 2-universal hash function H is applied to elements of a block source (X1, . . . , XT ), where each item Xi has enough min-entropy conditioned on the previous...
Information dissemination is a fundamental and frequently occuring problem in large, dynamic, distributed systems. We propose a novel approach to this problem, interest-aware info...
The automatic detection of near duplicate video segments, such as multiple takes of a scene or different news video clips showing the same event, has received growing research int...