Internet supercomputing is becoming an increasingly popular means for harnessing the power of a vast number of interconnected computers. This comes at a cost substantially lower t...
Seda Davtyan, Kishori M. Konwar, Alexander A. Shva...
— In many computer vision related applications it is necessary to distinguish between the background of an image and the objects that are contained in it. This is a difficult pr...
Thiago C. Bellardi, Dizan Vasquez, Christian Laugi...
The use of one-way chains in authentication protocols is a technique of great importance which has many applications. Employing cryptographic techniques in the area of industrial ...
Abstract. Many agent coordination problems can be modeled as distributed constraint optimization problems (DCOPs). ADOPT is an asynchronous and distributed search algorithm that is...
Robust extraction of text from scene images is essential for successful scene text recognition. Scene images usually have non-uniform illumination, complex background, and existen...