In Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR), accurately ranking the returned images is of paramount importance, since users consider mostly the topmost results. The typical ranking st...
Fabio F. Faria, Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de...
Delegation of authority is an important process that needs to be captured by any access control model. In role-based access control models, delegation of authority involves delega...
The tertiary (3D) structure of a protein contains the essential information for understanding the biological function of the protein at the molecular and cellular levels. Traditio...
Manesh J. Shah, Sergei Passovets, Dongsup Kim, Kyl...
Abstract—Path computation elements (PCE’s) are used to compute end-to-end paths across multiple areas. Multiple PCE’s may be dedicated to each area to provide sufficient path...
Juanjuan Yu, Yue He, Kai Wu, Marco Tacca, Andrea F...
External sorting--the process of sorting a file that is too large to fit into the computer's internal memory and must be stored externally on disks--is a fundamental subroutin...