A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
Hierarchical conditional random fields have been successfully applied to object segmentation. One reason is their ability to incorporate contextual information at different scales....
Xavier Boix, Josep M. Gonfaus, Joost van de Weijer...
Abstract In this work we study the combination of multicost routing and adjustable transmission power in wireless ad hoc networks, so as to obtain dynamic energy- and interference-...
Nikolaos Karagiorgas, Panagiotis C. Kokkinos, Chri...
We consider the Stackelberg shortest-path pricing problem, which is defined as follows. Given a graph G with fixed-cost and pricable edges and two distinct vertices s and t, we may...
Patrick Briest, Parinya Chalermsook, Sanjeev Khann...
When we encounter an English word that we do not understand, we can look it up in a dictionary. However, when an American Sign Language (ASL) user encounters an unknown sign, looki...