This chapter presents an approach for texture and object recognition that uses scale- or affine-invariant local image features in combination with a discriminative classifier. Text...
Parallel application development for Grids can from tools that abstract the underlying Grid middleware, hide the critical aspects of heterogeneous resources and provide utilities ...
OGSA-DQP is a Distributed Query Processing system for the Grid. It uses the OGSA-DAI framework for querying individual databases and adds on top of it an infrastructure to perform ...
In this paper we present TransUCP, a general framework for transformational analogy. Using our framework we demonstrate that transformational analogy does not meet a crucial condit...
With the rapid growth of the Internet and pervasive computing activities, the migration of back-end legacy systems to network centric environments has become a focal point for res...