In this paper we compare the average performance of Monte Carlo methods for global optimization with non-adaptive deterministic alternatives. We analyze the behavior of the algori...
2 Background Model Background subtraction algorithm is susceptible to both global and local illumination changes such as shadows, sunlight and reflection. These changes sometimes c...
Recently, Multiple Background Models (M-BMs) [1, 2] have been shown to be useful in speaker verification, where the M-BMs are formed based on different Vocal Tract Lengths (VTLs)...
Mediation is the process of decomposing a task into subtasks, finding agents suitable for these subtasks and negotiating with agents to obtain commitments to execute these subtas...
: E-applications are increasingly being composed from individual services that can be realized with different technologies, such as, e.g., Web Services and standard component techn...