Ad-hoc Grids are highly heterogeneous and dynamic networks, one of the main challenges of resource allocation in such environments is to find mechanisms which do not rely on the ...
In this paper, we present a new method to obtain the contours of color faces. First, we introduce a new nonlinear skin classifier to detect the human skin information in images. T...
In the task of adaptive information filtering, a system receives a stream of documents but delivers only those that match a person's information need. As the system filters i...
Many scientific applications need to stage large volumes of files from one set of machines to another set of machines in a wide-area network. Efficient execution of such data t...
Push-based data delivery requires knowledge of user interests for making scheduling, bandwidthallocation, and routing decisions. Such information is maintained as user profiles. W...