The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to do this is to build specialized applicatio...
In this paper we describe our methodologies and evaluation results for the shot boundary detection at TRECVID 2007. We submitted 10 runs results based on SVM classifiers and sever...
Many researchers have searched for evidence of organizational improvements from the huge sums invested in ICT. Unfortunately, evidence for such a pay back is spotty at best (e.g.,...
Many decades of work have been invested in the area of distributed transactions including protocols such as 2PC, Paxos, and various approaches to quorum. These protocols provide t...
We present an empirical study of teams that revealed the amount of extraneous individual work needed to enable collaboration: finding references to other people, finding files to ...
John C. Tang, James Lin, Jeffrey Pierce, Steve Whi...