Abstract: Social virtual worlds such as Second Life are digital representations of the real world where human-controlled avatars evolve and interact through social activities. Unde...
Modern real-time systems must be designed to be highly adaptable, reacting to aperiodic events in a predictable manner and exhibiting graceful degradation in overload scenarios wh...
George Lima, Eduardo Camponogara, Ana Carolina Sok...
Searching for non-text data (e.g., images) is mostly done by means of metadata annotations or by extracting the text close to the data. However, supporting real content-based audi...
Spectral feature selection identifies relevant features by measuring their capability of preserving sample similarity. It provides a powerful framework for both supervised and uns...
The project SESAME uses semantic modeling and reasoning to support home owners and building managers in saving energy and in optimizing their energy costs while maintaining their ...