Given the increasing dependence of our societies on information systems, the overall security of these systems should be measured and improved. Existing work generally focuses on ...
The rapid growth of Internet population leads to the shortage of IP addresses. The next generation IP protocol, IPv6, which extends the IP address length from 32 bits to 128 bits,...
In this paper, we propose a novel method for the automatic segmentation of a foreground layer from a natural scene in real time by fusing infrared, color and edge information. Thi...
We describe a method to retrieve images found on web pages with specified object class labels, using an analysis of text around the image and of image appearance. Our method dete...
The DWS (Data Warehouse Striping) technique is a round-robin data partitioning approach especially designed for distributed data warehousing environments. In DWS the fact tables ar...
Jorge Vieira, Marco Vieira, Marco Costa, Henrique ...