Video on Demand (VoD) is a technology used to provide a number of programs to a number of users on request. In developing a VoD system, a fundamental problem is load balancing, wh...
In this article, we consider the computational aspects of deciding whether a conditional independence statement t is implied by a list of conditional independence statements L usi...
Markov random fields are designed to represent structured dependencies among large collections of random variables, and are well-suited to capture the structure of real-world sign...
Tanya Roosta, Martin J. Wainwright, Shankar S. Sas...
The watershed transformation is an efficient tool for segmenting grayscale images. An original approach to the watershed [1,9] consists in modifying the original image by lowering...
We define a cluster to be characterized by regions of high density separated by regions that are sparse. By observing the downward closure property of density, the search for inte...
Alexei D. Miasnikov, Jayson E. Rome, Robert M. Har...