The visual perceptional ability of computer systems to understand the environment is desirable in engineering design and manufacturing where automation is anticipated. I n order t...
An approach to handle the complex dynamics of a multi-agent system is based on distinguishing aggregation levels by structuring the system into parts or components. The behavior of...
This paper presents a real-time single-camera surveillance system, aiming at detecting and partly analyzing a group of people. A set of moving persons is segmented using a combina...
The concept of design patterns has recently emerged as a new paradigm in the context of object-oriented design methodology. Similar ideas are being explored in other areas of compu...
We address the problems of I/O scheduling and buffer management for general reference strings in a parallel I/O system. Using the standard parallel disk model withD disks and a sh...