A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
—Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting and Burst Illumination Laser data can be used for range profiling and target classification. In general, the problem is to analyze the res...
Sergio Hernandez-Marin, Andrew M. Wallace, Gavin J...
Minimizing the rank of a matrix subject to constraints is a challenging problem that arises in many applications in control theory, machine learning, and discrete geometry. This c...
We provide an overview of spline and wavelet techniques with an emphasis on applications in pattern recognition. The presentation is divided in three parts. In the first one, we ar...