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-# VDMS: Your Favourite Visual Data Management System
+# VDMS: Your Favorite Visual Data Management System
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 VDMS is a storage solution for efficient access of big-”visual”-data that aims
 to achieve cloud scale by searching for relevant visual data via visual
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 Conference | Links, Cite | Description
 ------------ | ------------- | -------------
 Industrial and Applications @ VLDB 2021 | [Paper](http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol14/p3240-remis.pdf) | Demonstrate VDMS capabilities in image search application
+2nd USENIX Workshop @ HotEdge 2019 | [Paper](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/hotedge19-paper-altarawneh.pdf), [Presentation](https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/hotedge19_slides_altarawneh.pdf) | VDMS in Edge-to-cloud architecture for video streaming application
 Learning Systems @ NIPS 2018 | [Paper](https://export.arxiv.org/abs/1810.11832), [Cite](https://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/journals/corr/abs-1810-11832) | Systems for Machine Learning [Workshop](http://learningsys.org/nips18/cfp.html) @ NIPS
 HotStorage @ ATC 2017 | [Paper](https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage17/program/presentation/gupta-cledat), [Presentation](https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage17/program/presentation/gupta-cledat), [Cite](https://www.usenix.org/biblio/export/bibtex/203374)| Positioning Paper at USENIX ATC 2017 Workshop