Even with todays hardware improvements, performance problems are still common in many software systems. An approach to tackle this problem for component-based software architectur...
Priority queueing systems come natural when customers with diversified delay requirements have to wait to get service. The customers that cannot tolerate but small delays get serv...
One-to-one codes are "one shot" codes that assign a distinct codeword to source symbols and are not necessarily prefix codes (more generally, uniquely decodable). For ex...
This paper presents a general and efficient framework for probabilistic inference and learning from arbitrary uncertain information. It exploits the calculation properties of fini...
As biometric authentication systems become more prevalent, it is becoming increasingly important to evaluate their performance. The current paper introduces a novel statistical me...