The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...
Machine perception can benefit from the use of features extracted from data provided by a variety of sensor modalities. Recent advances in sensor design makes it possible to incor...
Reliable detection of human activity is an unsolved problem. The main is that low resolution and the unconstrained nature of realistic environments and human behaviourmakeform cue...
Simon J. D. Prince, James H. Elder, Yuqian Hou, Mi...
Computational Grids are distributed systems that provide access to computational resources in a transparent fashion. Collecting and providing information about the status of the Gr...
Andrew W. Cooke, Alasdair J. G. Gray, Lisha Ma, We...
sents some concluding remarks and discusses future work. This paper considers the problem of integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components into systems with high ...
Paulo Asterio de Castro Guerra, Alexander B. Roman...