For most users, authoring multimedia documents remains a complex task. One solution to deal with this problem is to provide template-based authoring tools but with the drawback of...
The lack of a precise semantics for UML activity diagrams makes the reasoning on models constructed using such diagrams infeasible. However, such diagrams are widely used in domai...
During software maintenance, some non-functional properties may be lost. This is due to the lack of an explicit definition of their links with the corresponding architectural choi...
Although the main fault-tolerance techniques are known for a long time, there exists no consistent approach for implementing dependable applications in the sense that the fault-to...
This paper proposes a new approach for hot event detection and summarization of news videos. The approach is mainly based on two graph algorithms: optimal matching (OM) and normali...