Modern distributed systems that have to avoid performance degradation and system overload require several runtime management decisions for load balancing and load sharing, overloa...
The N-Normalization is an efficient method for normalizing a given similarity computed among multimedia objects. It can be considered for clustering and kernel enhancement. Howev...
In this paper, we propose a novel framework of object categorization, namely layered object categorization, which takes advantage of hierarchical category information and performs...
Enabling a sophisticated Demand Response (DR) framework, whereby individual consumers adapt their electricity consumption in response to price variations, is a major objective of ...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks integrate autonomous computing resources without requiring a central coordinating authority, which makes them a potentially robust and scalabl...