Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
We develop and evaluate a system for load management in shared-disk file systems built on clusters of heterogeneous computers. The system generalizes load balancing and server pr...
The emerging MPEG-7 standard embodies a visual descriptor that will be associated with the dominant colors of an image. In this contribution, a threshold adaptation method for reg...
The software underpinning today’s IT systems needs to adapt dynamically and predictably to rapid changes in system workload, environment and objectives. We describe a software f...
— A nonlinear beamforming aided detector is proposed for multiple-antenna assisted quadrature phase shift keying systems. By exploiting the inherent symmetry of the optimal Bayes...