Performance of semiautomatic and interactive segmentation(SIS) algorithms are usually evaluated by employing a small number of human operators to segment the images. The human operators typically provide the approximate ...

How to coordinate multiple devices to work together as a single application is one of the most important challenges for building a distributed mobile application. Mobile devices play important roles in daily life and ...

Measuring human behavioral patterns has broad application across different sciences. An individual’s social, proximal and geographical contact patterns can have significant importance in Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) and ...

Machine-readable privacy policies have been developed to help reduce user effort in understanding how websites will use personally identifiable information (PII). The goal of these policies is to enable the user to make ...

Diabetes mellitus is a prevailing chronic disease in Canada and around the world. The population with diabetes is rapidly increasing. The growth of diabetes prevalence places a heavy burden on the health care system and ...

Errors caused by the interaction of computer systems with the physical world are hard to mitigate but errors related to the underlying software can be prevented by a more rigorous development of software code. In the context ...

Musical mood is the emotion that a piece of music expresses. When musical mood is used in music recommenders (i.e., systems that recommend music a listener is likely to enjoy), salient suggestions that match a user’s ...

Information seeking on the Web has become a central part of many daily activities. Even though information seeking is extremely common, there are many times when these tasks are unsuccessful, because the information found ...

Internet traffic generated from mobile devices has experienced a huge growth in the last few years. With the increasing popularity of streaming applications in mobile devices, video traffic generated from mobile devices ...

A picture may be worth a thousand words but what might those words be? How do we go about finding those words? Images are often used to convey information, supplement textual content, and/or add visual appeal to documents. ...