This paper proposes a method of determining human head poses from a sequence of images. The main idea is to use some features in a 3D head model to generate a virtual fronto-paral...
The Progressive Deployment System (PDS) is a virtual execution environment and infrastructure designed specifically for deploying software, or “assets”, on demand while enabli...
Bowen Alpern, Joshua S. Auerbach, Vasanth Bala, Th...
We present a generic architecture for developing fullyfledged autonomic systems out of non-autonomic components, and investigate how the architecture can be implemented using exi...
The ubiquity of multicore processors in commodity computing systems has raised a significant programming challenge for their effective use. An attractive but challenging approach...
In this paper we develop, implement and evaluate an approach to quickly reassign resources for a virtualized utility computing platform. The approach provides this platform agilit...
Wei Zhang, Hangwei Qian, Craig E. Wills, Michael R...