We formulate face localization as a Maximum A Posteriori Probability(MAP) problem of finding the best estimation of human face configuration in a given image. The a prior distribu...
Jilin Tu, ZhenQiu Zhang, Zhihong Zeng, Thomas S. H...
This paper addresses the problem of porting distributed parallel applications to the Grid. One of the challenges we address is the change from static homogeneous cluster environmen...
Vladimir Korkhov, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Pet...
This research investigates the problem of robust static resource allocation for distributed computing systems operating under imposed Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. Often, ...
Vladimir Shestak, Jay Smith, Anthony A. Maciejewsk...
It is often difficult to perform efficiently a collection of jobs with complex job dependencies due to temporal unpredictability of the grid. One way to mitigate the unpredictabili...
Grzegorz Malewicz, Ian T. Foster, Arnold L. Rosenb...
In this paper, we propose a simple and fully distributed mechanism for constructing and maintaining the overlay topology in mesh-based P2P-TV systems. Our algorithm optimizes the ...
Richard John Lobb, Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Emili...