String comparison is a critical issue in many application domains, including speech recognition, contents search, and bioinformatics. The similarity between two strings of lengths...
Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems have been developed aiming at enabling users to search and retrieve images based on their properties such as shape, color and texture....
Ricardo da Silva Torres, Eduardo M. Picado, Alexan...
We study in this paper the problem of broadcasting dependent data for unordered queries. However, most prior studies on dependent data broadcasting are limited to the premise of n...
In this paper, we propose a manpower allocation model with time windows which is of practical interest to serviceman scheduling operations. Specifically, this problem originates f...
A Grid Information Service (GIS) stores information about the resources of a distributed computing environment and answers questions about it. We are developing RGIS, a GIS system...