Abstract. We consider an approach to service selection wherein service consumers choose services with desired nonfunctional properties to maximize their utility. A consumer’s uti...
Abstract—The queueing performance of a (secondary) cognitive user is investigated for a hierarchical network where there are N independent and identical primary users. Each prima...
Model selection by the predictive least squares (PLS) principle has been thoroughly studied in the context of regression model selection and autoregressive (AR) model order estima...
This paper analytically explores the effect of software bundling on software piracy. We focus on piracy at individual user level where several individuals illegitimately share a s...
In this paper we introduce a novel approach for inferring articulated spine models from images. A low-dimensional manifold embedding is created from a training set of prior mesh mo...