The increasing popularity of personal reading devices raises the question of how best to support so-called active reading, which involves acts like annotation, note taking, etc. P...
Computer systems are usually made fault tolerant through replication. By replicating a service on multiple servers we make sure that if some replicas fail, the service can still b...
Parisa Jalili Marandi, Marco Primi, Fernando Pedon...
Content-aware image retargeting has attracted a lot of interests recently. The key and most challenging issue for this task is how to balance the tradeoff between preserving the i...
When glancing at a magazine, or browsing the Internet, we are continuously being exposed to photographs. Despite of this overflow of visual information, humans are extremely good...
—We propose a method to improve traditional character-based PPM text compression algorithms. Consider a text file as a sequence of alternating words and non-words, the basic ide...