The design and prototype implementation of the XCAT Grid Science Portal is described in this paper. The portal lets grid application programmers easily script complex distributed ...
Sriram Krishnan, Randall Bramley, Dennis Gannon, R...
It has recently been shown that fair exchange, a security problem in distributed systems, can be reduced to a fault tolerance problem, namely a special form of distributed consensu...
Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Felix C...
—We suggest a method of controlling the access to a secure database via quorum systems. A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which have a nonempty inter...
Recent studies in patch-based Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) approaches for face age estimation present promising results. We propose using a hidden Markov model (HMM) supervector t...
Xiaodan Zhuang, Xi Zhou, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Th...
A concept hierarchy is a kind of general form of knowledge representation. Most of the previous researches on describing the concept hierarchy use tree-like crisp taxonomy. However...