Abstract. Development of composed services requires a continues adaptation of the composed service to the changing environment of offered services. Services may no longer be avail...
Abstract. Balanced search trees provide guaranteed worst-case time performance and hence they form a very important class of data structures. However, the self-balancing ability co...
Abstract. We describe a way to improve the performance of MDP planners by modifying them to use lower and upper bounds to eliminate non-optimal actions during their search. First, ...
Abstract. We present an alignment framework for object detection using a hierarchy of 3D polygonal models. One difficulty with alignment methods is that the high-dimensional transf...
Abstract. Integration of text and documents into database management systems has been the subject of much research. However, most of the approaches are limited to data retrieval. C...
Stefania Leone, Ela Hunt, Thomas B. Hodel, Michael...