In a heap model, solid blocks, or pieces, pile up according to the Tetris game mechanism. An optimal schedule is an in nite sequence of pieces minimizing the asymptotic growth rat...
The compression of still images by means of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), adopted in the JPEG-2000 and MPEG-4 standards, is becoming more and more widespread because it yie...
Most image and video compression algorithms that have been proposed to improve picture quality relative to compression efficiency have either been designed based on objective crite...
One of the most fundamental problems automatic parallelization tools are confronted with is to find an optimal domain decomposition for a given application. For regular domain prob...
Never before in history data has been generated at such high volumes as it is today. Exploring and analyzing the vast volumes of data becomes increasingly difficult. Information vi...