Abstract Video Question Answering (QA) is an important task in understanding video
temporal structure. We observe that there are three unique attributes of video QA compared …

The completely decoupled interaction model offered by the publish/subscribe
communication paradigm perfectly suits the interoperability needs of todays large-scale …

In content-based publish/subscribe systems, messages target a dynamic group of
participants whose expressed interests match the contents of the messages. In this …

The rapid growth of sense-and-respond applications and the emerging cloud computing
model present a new challenge: providing publish/subscribe as a scalable and elastic cloud …

This chapter introduces PADRES, the publish/subscribe model with the capability to
correlate events, uniformly access data produced in the past and future, balance the traffic …

Increasingly, one of the most prominent ways to disseminate information on the Web is
through “notifications”(also known as alerts), and as such they are at the core of many large …

In this work we propose and develop a comprehensive infrastructure, coined PastryStrings,
for supporting rich queries on both numerical (with range, and comparison predicates) and …

This paper develops content-based publish/subscribe algorithms to support general overlay
topologies, as opposed to traditional acyclic or tree-based topologies. Among other benefits …

The big data era is characterized by the emergence of live content with increasing
complexities of data dimensionality and data sizes, which poses a new challenge to …

The decentralized and highly scalable nature of structured peer-to-peer networks, based on
distributed hash tables (DHTs), makes them a great fit for facilitating the interaction and …