Many visual search and matching systems represent images using sparse sets of "visual words": descriptors that have been quantized by assignment to the best-matching symb...
Abstract. Notations are central for understanding mathematical discourse. Readers would like to read notations that transport the meaning well and prefer notations that are familia...
Reconfigurable architectures enable the hardware function to be implemented by the user and, due to its characteristics, have been used in many areas, including Bioinformatics. One...
Nowadays many customised embedded processors offer the possibility of speeding up an application by implementing it using Application-Specific Functional units (AFUs). However, th...
Distributed allocation mechanisms rely on the agents' autonomous (and supposedly rational) behaviour: states evolve as a result of agents contracting deals and exchanging res...