This paper proposes a cryptographic mechanism for metering the duration and/or the number of instances of running a data process. This mechanism has the following property: knowing...
Sorting long sequences of keys is a problem that occurs in many different applications. For embedded systems, a uniprocessor software solution is often not applicable due to the l...
Superfluous variables are often produced as the byproducts of program transformations, compilation, and poorly written code. These variables are irrelevant to the computational o...
Inventory plays a major role in deciding the overall manufacturing costs, and a good scheduling system should balance the on-time delivery of products versus low work-in-process (W...
Abstract. Distribution of object colors has been used in computer vision for recognition and indexing. Most of the recent approaches to this problem have been focused on de ning op...