A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
A number of researchers have been building high-level semantic concept detectors such as outdoors, face, building, etc., to help with semantic video retrieval. Using the TRECVID v...
Geographic information systems and online mapping technologies have been widely used for supporting participatory decision-making in local communities. However, limited studies ha...
Randomness is being harnessed in the design of some interactive systems. This is observed in random blogs, random web searching, and in particular Apple's iPod Shuffle. Yet t...
Open Source communities typically use a software repository to archive various software projects with their source code, mailing list discussions, documentation, bug reports, and ...
Shinji Kawaguchi, Pankaj K. Garg, Makoto Matsushit...