This paper presents a novel method for the removal of unwanted image intensity due to occluding objects far from the plane of focus. Such occlusions may arise in scenes with large...
Kaleem Siddiqi, Michael S. Langer, Scott McCloskey
Interval availability is a dependability measure defined by the fraction of time during which a system is in operation over a finite observation period. The computation of its d...
Abstract--This research investigates the problem of robust dynamic resource allocation for heterogeneous distributed computing systems operating under imposed constraints. Often, s...
Jay Smith, Edwin K. P. Chong, Anthony A. Maciejews...
Due to the increasing popularity of spatial databases, researchers have focused their efforts on improving the query processing performance of the most expensive spatial database ...
Yun-Wu Huang, Matthew C. Jones, Elke A. Rundenstei...
This paper develops analytical models to predict the throughput and the response time of a replicated database using measurements of the workload on a standalone database. These m...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Emmanuel Cecche...