The shift to multi-core hardware brings new challenges to database systems, as the software parallelism determines performance. Even though database systems traditionally accommod...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Radu Stoica, Mano...
: Sentient Computing gives perception to computing systems so that they can detect, interpret and respond to changing aspects of users' context. The location attribute of a us...
Aggregated search refers to the integration of content from specialized corpora or verticals into web search results. Aggregation improves search when the user has vertical intent...
The biggest challenge for RFID technology is to provide benefits without threatening the privacy of consumers. Many solutions have been suggested but almost as many ways have been...
Active learning and crowdsourcing are promising ways to efficiently build up training sets for object recognition, but thus far techniques are tested in artificially controlled ...