Distributed peer-to-peer systems rely on voluntary participation of peers to effectively manage a storage pool. In such systems, data is generally replicated for performance and a...
Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, An...
Abstract. Parallel programming is rapidly gaining importance as a vector to develop high performance applications that exploit the improved capabilities of modern computer architec...
The popularity of distributed file systems continues to grow in last years. The reasons they are preferred over traditional centralized systems include fault tolerance, availabili...
Face recognition (FR) is an active yet challenging topic in computer vision applications. As a powerful tool to represent high dimensional data, recently sparse representation bas...
The automatic segmentation of the prostate and rectum from 3-D computed tomography (CT) images is still a challenging problem, and is critical for image-guided therapy application...