In the current knowledge age, with the continuous growth of the web data volume and where business decisions must be made quickly, traditional BI mechanisms become increasingly inaccurate in order to help the decision-making ...

Knowledge representation process is an essential matter regarding Computer Music systems. Methods have been applied in order to provide computers with the capability to generate conclusions based on experience in specialized ...

Data and text mining applications managing Web data have been the subject of recent research. In every case, data mining tasks need to work on clean, consistent, and integrated data for obtaining the best results. Thus, ...

Before buying a product or choosing for a trip destination, people often seek other people’s opinions to obtain a vision of the quality of what they want to acquire. Given that, opinions always had great influence on the ...

Let G = (V, E) be a simple and undirected graph. An edge-coloring is an assignment of colors to the edges of the graph such that any two adjacent edges receive different colors. The chromatic index of a graph G is the ...

Since the emergence of the Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and, more precisely, since the development of an open interface in 2008 called OpenFlow protocol, it is being observed that this new networking paradigm is ...

A distributed system is a set of processes and links that is desgined to provide computing power and data persistency, even on the presence of failures. To encapsulate the abstraction of time and to determine which processes ...

YouTube has become an important video sharing platform. Several users regularly produce video content and make this task their main livelihood. However, such success is also drawing the attention of malicious users propagating ...

One of the major issues in Data Center Networks (DCNs) is related to elephant flows. These flows typically are primarily responsible for network congestion, causing impacts on applications that are intolerant to delays. ...

Metaprogramming is widely supported by several programming languages. There exist metaprogramming at time of editing, compilation, and execution. In many languages metaprogramming is defined by a protocol that determines ...