In the last few years, multicasting is increasingly used as an efficient communication mechanism for group-oriented applications in the Internet. Some multicast applications requi...
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XML is quickly becoming the de facto standard for data exchange over the Internet. This is creating a new set of data management requirements involving XML, such as the need to st...
Igor Tatarinov, Stratis Viglas, Kevin S. Beyer, Ja...
A key factor that can dramatically reduce the search space during constraint solving is the criterion under which the variable to be instantiated next is selected. For this purpos...
Given an image region of pixels, second order statistics can be used to construct a descriptor for object representation. One example is the covariance matrix descriptor, which sh...
Xiaopeng Hong, Hong Chang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Ch...
Over the last few years there has been a revival of interest in the idea of least-commitment planning with a number of researchers returning to the partial-order planning approach...
Amanda Jane Coles, Andrew Coles, Maria Fox, Derek ...