Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers
complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid …

To enable real-time, person-independent 3D registration from 2D video, we developed a 3D
cascade regression approach in which facial landmarks remain invariant across pose over a …

Data management has become a critical challenge faced by a wide array of scientific
disciplines in which the provision of sound data management is pivotal to the achievements …

Introduction Computer science applications are becoming more and more network centric,
ubiquitous, knowledge intensive, and computing demanding. This trend will result soon in …

The number of available Internet services increases every day. This trend demands
distributed models and architectures to support scalability as well as semantics to enable …

The increasing volume and diversity of information in biomedical research is demanding
new approaches for data integration in this domain. Semantic Web technologies and …

Despite the success of the Web Ontology Language OWL, the development of expressive
means for querying OWL knowledge bases is still an open issue. In this paper, we …

The digital transformation of cities towards Smart Cities proposes many opportunities, eg,
related to services, security, waste and energy management, and infrastructure …

Using smart grids to build low carbon networks is one of the most challenging topics in ICT
(Information and Communication Technologies) industry. One of the first worldwide …

Grid resources are typically diverse in nature with respect to their software and hardware
configurations, resource usage policies and the kind of application they support …