This paper presents a novel feature set for visual tracking that is derived from “oriented energies”. More specifically, energy measures are used to capture a target’s multi...
Abstract. The agent-oriented software engineering methodology Tropos offers a structured development process and supporting tools for developing complex, distributed systems. The ...
Mirko Morandini, Duy Cu Nguyen, Anna Perini, Alber...
Abstract. In this paper we provide a full-scale evaluation of a cluster-based architecture for P2P IR, focusing on retrieval effectiveness. We observe that there is a significant ...
Abstract. Classical evolutionary algorithms have been extremely successful at solving certain problems. But they implement a very simple model of evolutionary biology that misses o...
In this paper we propose the notion of security-by-contract, a mobile contract that an application carries with itself. The key idea of the framework is that a digital signature sh...