The notion of maintenance often appears in the AI literature in the context of agent behavior and planning. In this paper, we argue that earlier characterizations of the notion of...
We investigate the question of what languages can be decided efficiently with the help of a recursive collisionfinding oracle. Such an oracle can be used to break collisionresistan...
Using a saliency measure based on the global property of contour closure, we have developed a method that reliably segments out salient contours bounding unknown objects from real...
Shyjan Mahamud, Karvel K. Thornber, Lance R. Willi...
Declustering techniques reduce query response times through parallel I/O by distributing data among multiple devices. Most of the research on declustering is targeted at spatial r...
We consider the problem of accurately measuring the credit risk of a portfolio consisting of loans, bonds and other financial assets. One particular performance measure of interes...