Consistency maintenance is important to the sharing of dynamic contents in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. The TTL-based mechanism is a natural choice for maintaining freshness in P2P...
The performances of face recognition systems are heavily subject to the variations in lighting. We propose a novel approach for face recognition under generic illumination conditi...
Message passing using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) is at present the most widely adopted framework for programming parallel applications for distributed-memory and clustere...
In competitive wholesale electricity markets, regulated load serving entities (LSEs) and marketers with default service contracts have obligations to serve fluctuating load at pre...
This paper analyzes opportunistic schemes for transmission scheduling from one of n homogeneous queues whose channel states fluctuate independently. Considered schemes consist of ...