We define two new classes of shared-memory objects: ratifiers, which detect agreement, and conciliators, which ensure agreement with some probability. We show that consensus can...
A general-purpose object indexingtechnique is described that combines the virtues of principal component analysis with the favorable matching properties of high-dimensional spaces...
To use multiple memory banks in parallel is a nature approach to boost the performance of flash-memory storage systems. However, realistic data-access localities unevenly load eac...
Automatic face photo-sketch recognition has important applications to law enforcement. Recent research has focused on transforming photos and sketches into the same modality for m...
In this paper we present a framework for the recognition of collective human activities. A collective activity is defined or reinforced by the existence of coherent behavior of i...