We clarify the role of Kolmogorov complexity in the area of randomness extraction. We show that a computable function is an almost randomness extractor if and only if it is a Kolm...
John M. Hitchcock, Aduri Pavan, N. V. Vinodchandra...
We collect and analyze a snapshot of data from 10,568 file systems of 4801 Windows personal computers in a commercial environment. The file systems contain 140 million files total...
Abstract— The adaptive contrast enhancement (ACE) algorithm, which uses contrast gains (CG’s) to adjust the highfrequency components of images, is a well-known technique for me...
—In this paper we present SYNCOBOOK, a distributed system that offers the functionalities of a face-to-face cooperative bookmarking system and of a recommendation system. Our ove...
Distributed systems generally require their component parts to interact cooperatively, in order for the system as a whole to function effectively. For any given activity, several ...