Abstract--Commercial services for provisioning software components and virtual infrastructure in the cloud are emerging. For customers, this creates a multitude of possibilities fo...
Immanuel Trummer, Frank Leymann, Ralph Mietzner, W...
Abstract--The Affinity Propagation (AP) clustering algorithm proposed by Frey and Dueck (2007) provides an understandable, nearly optimal summary of a data set. However, it suffers...
Abstract--Combination rules proposed so far in the DempsterShafer theory of evidence, especially Dempster rule, rely on a basic assumption, that is, pieces of evidence being combin...
Jianbing Ma, Weiru Liu, Didier Dubois, Henri Prade
In recent years we have witnessed a great interest in large distributed computing platforms, also known as clouds. While these systems offer enormous computing power, they are howe...
Abstract. In this paper, we consider the problem of computing a minimum bending energy path (or MinBEP) in a simple corridor. Given a simple 2D corridor C bounded by straight line ...