In this paper, we consider a distributed system that consists of a group of teams of worker robots that rely on physical robot messengers for the communication between the teams. ...
The high cost of operating large computing installations has motivated a broad interest in reducing the need for human intervention by making systems self-managing. This paper exp...
Yixin Diao, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Sujay S. Parekh...
We present EXTENT, an image annotation system that combines the context and content information to annotate images with metadata that cannot be reliably inferred from either the c...
Chang-Ming Tsai, Arun Qamra, Edward Y. Chang, Yuan...
The inertia of an n × n matrix A is defined as the triple (i+(A), i−(A), i0(A)), where i+(A), i−(A), and i0(A) are the number of eigenvalues of A, counting multiplicities, w...
: In the reliability-risk assessment, the second order reliability index method and the Conditional Expectation Monte Carlo (CEMC) simulation were interrelated as a new Level III a...