We introduce a new model for semantic annotation and retrieval from image databases. The new model is based on a probabilistic formulation that poses annotation and retrieval as c...
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) offer communication over a shared wireless channel without any pre-existing infrastructure. Forming peer-to-peer security associations in MANETs i...
Johann van der Merwe, Dawoud S. Dawoud, Stephen Mc...
The pervasiveness of wireless devices and the architectural organization of wireless networks in distributed communities, where no notion of trust can be assumed, are the main rea...
Svetlana Radosavac, John S. Baras, Iordanis Koutso...
A major application area of information systems technology and multimedia content management is that of support systems for engineering processes. This includes the particularly im...
Sebastian Bossung, Hans-Werner Sehring, Michael Sk...
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...