Failure detectors — oracles that provide information about process crashes — are an important ion for crash tolerance in distributed systems. Although current failure-detector...
Alejandro Cornejo, Nancy A. Lynch, Srikanth Sastry
This paper introduces the Located Hidden Random Field (LHRF), a conditional model for simultaneous part-based detection and segmentation of objects of a given class. Given a traini...
Structural information about a document is essential for structured query processing, indexing, and retrieval. A document page can be partitioned into a hierarchy of homogeneous r...
Many applications require that large amounts of data are deleted from the database ? typically, such bulk deletes are carried out periodically and involve old or out-of-date data....
In this paper, we propose an original hybrid statistical-structural method for on-line Chinese character recognition. We model characters thanks to fuzzy inference rules combining...