Driven by many real applications, in this paper we study the problem of similarity search with implicit object features; that is, the features of each object are not pre-computed/e...
Yi Luo, Zheng Liu, Xuemin Lin, Wei Wang 0011, Jeff...
The paper studies the impact of several lock manager designs on the overhead imposed to a persistent programming language by automated object locking. Our study reveals that a loc...
— Design of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) emerges as an increasingly important discipline in business-oriented IT management. In this work, we study utility maximization of con...
David Breitgand, Elean A. Henis, Onn Shehory, John...
Today, finite element technologies allow engineers to analyze complex assemblies and subsystems. With CPU power constantly increasing, it is not unreasonable to state that the eng...
This paper addresses the cooperative transport of a heavy object, called prey, towards a sporadically changing target location by a group of robots. The study is focused on the sit...