The field of information retrieval still strives to develop models which allow semantic information to be integrated in the ranking process to improve performance in comparison to...
This paper presents a multicast approach to shared virtual worlds. A shared VRML world is described with integrated spatial audio in a freeware VRML browser. An implementation in ...
John L. Robinson, John A. Stewart, Isabelle Labb&e...
Bone mineral density (BMD) measurements and fracture analysis of the spine bones are restricted to the Vertebral bodies (VBs). In this paper, we propose a novel 3D shape based met...
Melih S. Aslan, Asem M. Ali, Aly A. Farag, Ham M. ...
Ubiquitous computing has fueled the idea of constructing sentient, information-rich "smart spaces" that extend the boundaries of traditional computing to encompass physi...
Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Campbe...
In a variety of applications, ranging from data integration to distributed query evaluation, there is a need to obtain sets of data items from several sources (peers) and compute ...