Smart contract technology is reshaping conventional industry and business processes.
Being embedded in blockchains, smart contracts enable the contractual terms of an …

Distributed data processing is becoming a reality. Businesses want to do it for many
reasons, and they often must do it in order to stay competitive. While much of the …

High-quality data are the precondition for analyzing and using big data and for guaranteeing
the value of the data. Currently, comprehensive analysis and research of quality standards …

Recent technological advancements have led to a deluge of data from distinctive domains
(eg, health care and scientific sensors, user-generated data, Internet and financial …

Large volumes of videos are continuously recorded from cameras deployed for traffic control
and surveillance with the goal of answering “after the fact” queries: identify video frames with …

This paper proposes a method for constructing local image descriptors which efficiently
encode texture information and are suitable for histogram based representation of image …

The advent of deep machine learning platforms such as Tensorflow and Pytorch, developed
in expressive high-level languages such as Python, have allowed more expressive …

With the emergence of byte-addressable persistent memory (PM), a cache line, instead of a
page, is expected to be the unit of data transfer between volatile and nonvolatile devices, but …

The current work provides CIOs, software architects, project managers, developers, and
cloud strategy initiatives with a set of architectural patterns that offer nuggets of advice on …