We describe an approach to personalization that emphasizes the "client side." We posit the need for a highly individualistic user context that resides on the client mach...
Enabling technology for realizing ad-hoc business processes currently is becoming more and more popular, like for example web services. Ad-hoc business processes are semantically c...
Large, socially-driven Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook and Youtube have seen significant growth in popularity [5, 10]. However, strong demand also exists for socially-driven web s...
Frank Uyeda, Diwaker Gupta, Amin Vahdat, George Va...
Music thumbnailing (or music summarization) aims at finding the most representative part of a song, which can be used for web browsing, web searching and music recommendation. Thr...
Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...