—This paper describes an empirical study that addresses the issue of communication among members of a software development organization. In particular, data was collected concern...
Abstract-- Current systems are very often based on largescale, unpredictable and unreliable infrastructures. However, users of these systems increasingly require services with time...
Real world images are complex objects, difficult to describe but at the same time possessing a high degree of redundancy. A very recent study [1] on the statistical properties of n...
Lossy compression of a discrete memoryless source (DMS) with respect to a single-letter distortion measure is considered. We study the best attainable tradeoff between the exponent...
A continuous nearest neighbor query retrieves the nearest neighbor (NN) of every point on a line segment (e.g., "find all my nearest gas stations during my route from point s...