Abstract— Most large-scale public environments provide direction signs to facilitate the orientation for humans and to find their way to a goal location in the environment. Thus...
Continuous top-k queries, which report a certain number (k) of top preferred objects from data streams, are important for a broad class of real-time applications, ranging from fi...
Di Yang, Avani Shastri, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Mat...
This proposal explores the promotion of existing relational databases to Semantic Web Endpoints. It presents the benefits of ontologybased read and write access to existing relati...
There has been significant recent interest in exploring the role of coordination languages as middleware for distributed systems. These languages provide operations that allow pro...
We propose a Visual Search Engine (ViSE) as a semi-automatic component in a surveillance system using networked cameras. The ViSE aims to assist the monitoring operation of huge a...
Anil K. Jain, Itaru Kitahara, Kiyoshi Kogure, Nori...