This paper empirically investigates parallel competent genetic algorithms (cGAs) [4]. cGAs, such as BOA [21], LINCGA [15], D5 -GA [28], can solve GA-difficult problems by automati...
Location-based services are increasingly popular and it is a key challenge to efficiently support query processing. We present a novel design to process large numbers of location...
In recent years, the popularity of compressed music files and online music downloads has increased dramatically. Today's users own large digital collections of high quality m...
Many 3D formats exist and will co-exist for a long time since there is no 3D standard that defines a generally accepted 3D format. The support for multiple 3D formats will be impo...
We present a novel data collection system deployed for the ACQUINE - Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine. The goal of the system is to collect online user opinions, both structured...