In this paper, we propose a tree-based multidimensional structure, GeM-Tree, which indexes both images and videos within a single general framework utilizing Earth Mover’s Dista...
—Storage Area Networks (SANs) connect storage devices to servers over fast network interconnects. We consider the problem of optimal SAN configuration with the goal of meeting s...
A new generation of distributed systems and applications rely on the cooperation of diverse user populations motivated by self-interest. While they can utilize “reputation syste...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almerot...
—In an ad-hoc collaborative sharing environment, attribute-based access control provides a promising approach in defining authorization over shared resources based on users’ p...
— Possibilistic logic is essentially a formalism for handling qualitative uncertainty with an inference machinery that remains close to the one of classical logic. It is capable ...