: In an urban area, the demand for taxis is not always matched up with the supply. This paper proposes mining historical data to predict demand distributions with respect to contex...
Modeling complex realistic objects is a difficult and time consuming process. Nevertheless, with improvements in rendering speed and quality, more and more applications require s...
We describe the implementation and experimental evaluation of a fault-tolerant leader election service for dynamic systems. Intuitively, distributed applications can use this serv...
– Wireless mobile access to the Internet is an indispensable tool for private and corporate users alike; but both industry and academia recognize the need for better service. Imp...
Abstract. Overcompression is the process of post-processing compressed images to gain either further size reduction or improved quality. This is made possible by the fact that the ...