We present SGuard, a new fault-tolerance technique for distributed stream processing engines (SPEs) running in clusters of commodity servers. SGuard is less disruptive to normal s...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Albert G. Gre...
We present a hierarchical generative model for object recognition that is constructed by weakly-supervised learning. A key component is a novel, adaptive patch feature whose width...
Abstract. The Belief, Desire, Intention (BDI) architecture is increasingly being used in a wide range of complex applications for agents. Many theories and models exist which suppo...
Vineet Padmanabhan, Guido Governatori, Abdul Satta...
Histograms represent a popular means for feature representation. This paper is concerned with the problem of exhaustive histogram-based image search. Several standard histogram co...
Mikhail Sizintsev, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Andre...
The Linux cluster considered in this paper, formed from shuttle box XPC nodes with 2 GHz Athlon processors connected by dual Gb Ethernet switches, is relatively easily constructed...
David J. Johnston, Martin Fleury, Michael Lincoln,...