Clusters and distributed systems offer fault tolerance and high performance through load sharing. When all n computers are up and running, we would like the load to be evenly distr...
Mediator systems integrate distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous data sources, but their e ective use requires the solution of hard query optimization problems. This is usuall...
Multicast and broadcast are efficient ways to deliver messages to a group of recipients in a network. Due to the growing security concerns in various applications, messages are oft...
Zhi-Zhong Chen, Ze Feng, Minming Li, F. Frances Ya...
Recently, an optimization approach for fast visual tracking of articulated structures based on Stochastic Meta-Descent (SMD) [7] has been presented. SMD is a gradient descent with...
Matthieu Bray, Esther Koller-Meier, Nicol N. Schra...
In this article, we propose an automatic method to detect microaneurysms in retina photographs. Microaneurysms are the most frequent and usually the first lesions to appear as a co...