We present a brokering service for the adaptive management of composite services. The goal of this broker is to dynamically adapt at runtime the composite service configuration, ...
Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide a principled, general framework for robot motion planning in uncertain and dynamic environments. They have been app...
Sylvie C. W. Ong, Shao Wei Png, David Hsu, Wee Sun...
This paper presents a new action recognition approach based on local spatio-temporal features. The main contributions of our approach are twofold. First, a new local spatio-tempora...
Chunfeng Yuan, Weiming Hu, Xi Li, Stephen J. Mayba...
One proposed technique to reduce energy consumption of data centers is thermal-aware job scheduling, i.e. job scheduling that relies on predictive thermal models to select among po...
Georgios Varsamopoulos, Ayan Banerjee, Sandeep K. ...
In access-control systems, policy rules conflict when they prescribe different decisions (ALLOW or DENY) for the same access. We present the results of a user study that demonstr...
Robert W. Reeder, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor,...