In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...
XML data warehouses form an interesting basis for decisionsupport applications that exploit heterogeneous data from multiple sources. However, XML-native database systems currentl...
Recently, 2DPCA and its variants have attracted much attention in face recognition area. In this paper, some efforts are made to discover the underlying fundaments of these method...
Shiguang Shan, Bo Cao, Yu Su, Laiyun Qing, Xilin C...
Identifying and inferring performances of a network topology is a well known problem. Achieving this by using only end-to-end measurements at the application level is a method kno...
The paper introduces a new approximation scheme for planar digital curves. This scheme defines an approximating sausage ‘around’ the given digital curve, and calculates a mini...