In this paper, we investigate the problem of answering top-k queries via materialized views. We provide theoretical guarantees for the adequacy of a view to answer a top-k query, ...
Building effective learning environments is an art that can only be perfected by a great deal of explorations involving the environments’ audience: the learners. This paper focus...
One of the unknowns of emailing is the time it will take the receiver to form and post a reply. Response times vary considerably, and the chronemics of email are an important non-...
This paper presents a Bayesian Network model for ContentBased Image Retrieval (CBIR). In the explanation and test of this work, only two images features (semantic evidences) are i...
Paulo S. Rodrigues, Gilson A. Giraldi, Ade A. Arau...
SemanticTalk is a tool for supporting face-to-face meetings and discussions by automatically generating a semantic context from spoken conversations. We use speech recognition and...