This paper develops analytic models that characterize the behavior of on-demand stored media content delivery using BitTorrent-like protocols. The models capture the effects of di...
Nadim Parvez, Carey L. Williamson, Anirban Mahanti...
Credit analysts generally assess the risk of credit applications based on their previous experience. They frequently employ quantitative methods to this end. Among the methods used...
We observe that an effect of "disk resource sharing" of multi-copy movie traffic has great impact on the blocking performance of a video-on-demand system. This observatio...
Jun Guo, Eric Wing Ming Wong, Sammy Chan, Peter Ta...
We consider the problem of detecting object contours in natural images. In many cases, local luminance changes turn out to be stronger in textured areas than on object contours. Th...
In this paper, a perturbation expansion technique is introduced to decompose the tracking error of a general adaptive tracking algorithm in a linear regression model. This method ...