The problem of figure-ground separation is tackled from the perspective of combinatorial optimization. Previous attempts have used deterministic optimization techniques based on re...
The growing deployment rate of wireless LANs indicates that wireless networking is rapidly becoming a prevalent form of communication. As users become more accustomed to the use o...
Yuan Sun, Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, Charles E. P...
In this study, an adaptive Bayesian decision model is developed to determine the optimal replacement age for the systems maintained according to a general age replacement policy. I...
We present the systematic design and development of a distributed query scheduling service DQS in the context of DIOM, a distributed and interoperable query mediation system 26 ...
In this paper we analyze the behavior of e-commerce users based on actual logs from two large non-English e-brokers. We start by presenting a quantitative study of the behavior of...
Virgilio Almeida, Wagner Meira Jr., Victor F. Ribe...