Huge amounts of social multimedia is being created daily by a combination of globally distributed disparate sensors, including human-sensors (e.g. tweets) and video cameras. Taken...
Images can affect people on an emotional level. Since the emotions that arise in the viewer of an image are highly subjective, they are rarely indexed. However there are situation...
In massively collaborative projects such as scientific or community databases, users often need to agree or disagree on the content of individual data items. On the other hand, tr...
An increasing number of applications operate on data obtained from the Web. These applications typically maintain local copies of the web data to avoid network latency in data acc...
Interactive programs, such as GUIs or spreadsheets, often maintain dependency information over dynamically-created networks of objects. That is, each imperative object tracks not ...
Neel R. Krishnaswami, Lars Birkedal, Jonathan Aldr...