An efficient method to compute local density-based outliers in high dimensional data was proposed. In our work, we have shown that this type of outlier is present even in any subset of the dataset. This property is used ...

Parent-child social games, such as peek-a-boo and patty-cake, are a key element of an infant's earliest social interactions. The analysis of children's behaviors in social games based on video recordings provides a means ...

Thirty years ago, research in designing operating systems to defeat malicious software was very popular. The primary technique was to design and implement a small security kernel that could provide security assurances to ...

The CopyCat project is an interdisciplinary effort to create a set of computer-aided language learning tools for deaf children. The CopyCat games allow children to interact with characters using American Sign Language ...

Emerging trends toward cloud computing and virtualization have been opening new avenues to meet enormous demands of space, resource utilization, and energy efficiency in modern data centers. By being allowed to host many ...

The thesis presents a system for content based image retrieval and mining. The research presents a design of a scalable solution for efficient retrieval of images from large image databases using image features such as ...

This work studies application acceleration for wireless and mobile data networks. The problem of accelerating application can be addressed along multiple dimensions. The first dimension is advanced network protocol design, ...

Due to the information explosion on the Internet, effective information search techniques are required to retrieve the desired information from the Web. Based on much analysis on users' search intention and the variant ...

Today, host-based malware detection approaches such as antivirus programs are severely lagging in terms of defense against malware. Two important aspects that the overall effectiveness of malware detection depend on are ...

Extreme scale data management in high performance computing requires consideration of the end-to-end scientific workflow process. Of particular importance for runtime performance, the write-read cycle must be addressed as ...