Distributed applications, especially the ones being I/O intensive, often access the storage subsystem in a non-sequential way (stride requests). Since such behaviors lower the ove...
Automatic generation of taxonomies can be useful for a wide area of applications. In our application scenario a topical hierarchy should be constructed reasonably fast from a large...
Parametric Embedding (PE) has recently been proposed as a general-purpose algorithm for class visualisation. It takes class posteriors produced by a mixture-based clustering algori...
Parametric software effort estimation models consisting on a single mathematical relationship suffer from poor adjustment and predictive characteristics in cases in which the hist...
Segmentation of video foreground objects from background has many important applications, such as human computer interaction, video compression, multimedia content editing and man...