An index is devised to support position-independent search for images containing quartets of icons. Point quartets exist that do not unambiguously map to quadrilaterals, however, ...
Given a metric space (X, dX), c ≥ 1, r > 0, and p, q ∈ [0, 1], a distribution over mappings H : X → N is called a (r, cr, p, q)-sensitive hash family if any two points in...
A resource directory is a critical component of a Grid architecture. P2P computing paradigm could address some of the scalability issues that make distributed resource discovery s...
This paper presents a software implementation of a very fast parallel Reed-Solomon decoder on the second generation of MorphoSys reconfigurable computation platform, which is targ...
The current boom of the Web is associated with the revenues originated from on-line advertising. While search-based advertising is dominant, the association of ads with a Web page...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Marco Cristo, Paulo Braz...