Why do people tag? Users have mostly avoided annotating media such as photos ? both in desktop and mobile environments ? despite the many potential uses for annotations, including...
The Write-All problem for an asynchronous shared-memory system has the objective for the processes to update the contents of a set of shared registers, while minimizing the mber o...
Consider a center possessing a trusted (tamper proof) device that wishes to securely compute a public function over private inputs that are contributed by some network nodes. In ne...
Maged H. Ibrahim, Aggelos Kiayias, Moti Yung, Hong...
Abstract. The optimized distance-based access methods currently available for multidimensional indexing in multimedia databases have been developed based on two major assumptions: ...
Anne H. H. Ngu, Quan Z. Sheng, Du Q. Huynh, Ron Le...
When a database query has a large number of results, the user can only be shown one page of results at a time. One popular approach is to rank results such that the "best&quo...