In recent years, large scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs) have become a major trend in distributed applications, mainly due to the enormous popularity of multiplayer onl...
Query-by-example is the most popular query model for today’s image retrieval systems. A typical query image contains not only relevant objects (e.g., Eiffel Tower), but also ir...
Electronic photography is gaining parts of the photography market and tends to replace gradually all argentic photography. The combination of digital camera and computer technolog...
We describe a system called CFLP which aims at the integration of the best features of functional logic programming (FLP), cooperative constraint solving (CCS), and distributed co...
The first challenge that we tackle in this paper is how to conduct access control in ubiquitous environments where sites have to handle access requests from their own users as wel...