We present an active learning approach to choose image annotation requests among both
object category labels and the objects' attribute labels. The goal is to solicit those labels that …

Data replication is a practical and effective method to achieve efficient and fault-tolerant data
access in grids. Traditionally, data replication schemes maintain an entire replica in each …

Cloud computing has emerged as a main approach for managing huge distributed data in
different areas such as scientific operations and engineering experiments. In this regard …

Replicating for performance constitutes an important issue in large–scale data management
systems. In this context, a significant number of replication strategies have been proposed …

Grid technology offers the potential for providing secure access to remote services, thereby
promoting scientific collaborations in an unprecedented scale. Grid Resource Management …

Data Grid is a geographically distributed environment that deals with large-scale data-
intensive applications. Effective scheduling in Grid can reduce the amount of data …

Though computer technology advances quickly, the computing speed and storage capacity
of a single computer still cannot satisfy the requirements of many applications. As a result …

In today's world, effective management and quick retrieval of data is an important issue. It is
very challenging task to provide maximum data availability and fault tolerant data access in …

In some classification tasks, all patterns in a field, such as digits in a ZIP-code image,
originate from the same, but unknown, source (writer/print style). The class-conditional …

In grid environment, a job may execute on a node that is geographically far away from its
data files. These files are stored in heterogeneous storage systems located at …