This paper introduces the concept of a critical backbone as a minimal set of variables or part of the solution necessary to be within the basin of attraction of the global optimum...
This paper focuses on two problems related to QoS-aware I/O server placement in hierarchical Grid environments. Given a hierarchical network with requests from clients, the network...
Sharing huge databases in distributed systems is inherently difficult. As the amount of stored data increases, data localization techniques become no longer sufficient. A more ef...
Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez,...
Abstract. An essential functionality for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) is road segmentation, which directly supports ADAS applications like road departure warning and i...
Abstract. As an important feature of fingerprints, singular points (includingcores and deltas) not only represent the local ridge pattern characteristics, but also determine the to...