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CCS
2011
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
How to tell if your cloud files are vulnerable to drive crashes
This paper presents a new challenge—verifying that a remote server is storing a file in a fault-tolerant manner, i.e., such that it can survive hard-drive failures. We describe...
Kevin D. Bowers, Marten van Dijk, Ari Juels, Alina...
CRV
2011
IEEE
337views Robotics» more  CRV 2011»
13 years 9 months ago
Object Detection Using Principal Contour Fragments
Abstract—Contour features play an important role in object recognition. Psychological experiments have shown that maximum-curvature points are most distinctive along a contour [6...
Changhai Xu, Benjamin Kuipers
ER
2011
Springer
265views Database» more  ER 2011»
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling the Propagation of User Preferences
Abstract. User preferences are a fundamental ingredient of personalized database applications, in particular those in which the user context plays a key role. Given a set of prefer...
Paolo Ciaccia, Riccardo Torlone
CEC
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Coevolutionary Temporal Difference Learning for small-board Go
—In this paper we apply Coevolutionary Temporal Difference Learning (CTDL), a hybrid of coevolutionary search and reinforcement learning proposed in our former study, to evolve s...
Krzysztof Krawiec, Marcin Szubert
HICSS
2012
IEEE
296views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2012»
13 years 5 months ago
Sparking Creativity: Improving Electronic Brainstorming with Individual Cognitive Priming
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the study of individual cognition in teams. Meanwhile, we learned that much of human behavior involves nonconscious cognition. ...
Alan R. Dennis, Randall K. Minas, Akshay Bhagwatwa...