—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
Abstract--Troubleshooting of wireless networks is a challenging network management task. We have developed, in a previous work, a new troubleshooting methodology, which we named St...
FlashDB is a self-tuning database optimized for sensor networks using NAND flash storage. In practical systems flash is used in different packages such as on-board flash chips,...
The accurate localization of facial features plays a fundamental
role in any face recognition pipeline. Constrained
local models (CLM) provide an effective approach to localizati...
Discriminative training has been a leading factor for improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance over the last decade. The traditional discriminative training, howev...