Many visual search and matching systems represent images using sparse sets of "visual words": descriptors that have been quantized by assignment to the best-matching symb...
The goal of IT governance is not only to achieve internal efficiency in an IT organization, but also to support IT's role as a business enabler. The latter is here denoted IT...
When creating software, data types are the basic bricks. Most of the time a programmer will use data types defined in library modules, therefore being tested by many users over ma...
In this paper, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using network simulators to teach networking concepts versus having students write programs. The authors have experie...
This paper presents some new concepts and procedures for financial risk management. To complement the use of value at risk a new concept, upside potential or opportunity value as ...