This paper presents a new coverage formulation addressing the quality of service of sensor networks that cooperatively detect targets traversing a region of interest. The problem o...
Abstract--The electrostatic discharge (ESD) problem has become a challenging reliability issue in nanometer-circuit design. High voltages that resulted from ESD might cause high cu...
This paper is concerned with an employee scheduling problem involving multiple shifts and work centers, where employees belong to a hierarchy of categories having downward substitu...
Following the decontamination metaphor for searching a graph, we introduce a cleaning process, which is related to both the chip-firing game and edge searching. Brushes (instead o...
Margaret-Ellen Messinger, Richard J. Nowakowski, P...
Face and facial feature detection plays an important role in various applications such as human computer interaction, video surveillance, face tracking, and face recognition. Effi...