In a typical content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system, query results are a set of images sorted by feature similarities with respect to the query. However, images with high fea...
Many applications of parallel I/O perform non-contiguous file accesses: instead of accessing a single (large) block of data in a file, a number of (smaller) blocks of data scatt...
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
In Mobile Social Networks (MSN) individuals with similar interests or commonalities connect to each other using the mobile phones. MSN are special kind of Ad-hoc Networks in which ...
Abstract. As the number of devices connected to the internet continues to grow rapidly and software systems are being increasingly deployed on the web, security and privacy have be...