In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
Many of today’s recognition approaches for hand-drawn sketches are feature-based, which is conceptually similar to the recognition of hand-written text. While very suitable for ...
The deluge of huge data sets such as those provided by
sensor networks, online transactions, and the web provide
exciting opportunities for data analysis. The scale of the
data ...
"The purpose of this paper is to introduce and study the most basic properties of three new variational problems which are suggested by applications to computer vision. In com...
We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...