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ICIP
2004
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Drift reduction for a H.264/AVC fine grain scalability with motion compensation architecture
The recent advances in non-scalable video encoding brought by the H.264/AVC standard offered significant improvements in terms of rate-distortion performance. This paper proposes ...
João Ascenso, Fernando Pereira
LREC
2008
110views Education» more  LREC 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
Information Extraction Tools and Methods for Understanding Dialogue in a Companion
This paper discusses how Information Extraction is used to understand and manage Dialogue in the EU-funded Companions project. This will be discussed with respect to the Senior Co...
Roberta Catizone, Alexiei Dingli, Hugo Pinto, Yori...
WOA
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Expectations driven approach for Situated, Goal-directed Agents
Abstract— Situated agents engaged in open systems continually face with external events requiring adequate services and behavioral responses. In these conditions agents should be...
Michele Piunti, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falc...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
On the Impact of Heterogeneity and Back-End Scheduling in Load Balancing Designs
—Load balancing is a common approach for task assignment in distributed architectures. In this paper, we show that the degree of inefficiency in load balancing designs is highly...
Ho-Lin Chen, Jason R. Marden, Adam Wierman
IWMM
2009
Springer
152views Hardware» more  IWMM 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
A new approach to parallelising tracing algorithms
Tracing algorithms visit reachable nodes in a graph and are central to activities such as garbage collection, marshalling etc. Traditional sequential algorithms use a worklist, re...
Cosmin E. Oancea, Alan Mycroft, Stephen M. Watt