This paper describes the development of a new document ranking system based on layout similarity. The user has a need represented by a set of ”wanted” documents, and the syste...
May Huang, Daniel DeMenthon, David S. Doermann, Ly...
The MPEG-4 standard includes support not only for natural video and audio, but also for synthetic graphics and sounds. In the MPEG-4 specifications, Body Animation Parameters (BAP...
Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Suchendra M. Bhandarkar,...
Abstract— We consider a multi-class queueing system operating under the Discriminatory Processor-Sharing (DPS) discipline. The DPS discipline provides a natural approach for mode...
This paper addresses the problem of fine-grained data replication in large distributed systems, such as the Internet, so as to minimize the user access delays. With fine-grained d...
Approximately 70% of the source code of a software system consists of identifiers. Hence, the names chosen as identifiers are of paramount importance for the readability of comp...