This paper introduces a new approach to a problem of data sharing among multiple parties, without disclosing the data between the parties. Our focus is data sharing among two parti...
This paper studies the pricing of software development outsourcing. Two pricing techniques – time and material and fixed price – are described and the economic conditions for ...
—Inspired by Weber’s Law, this paper proposes a simple, yet very powerful and robust local descriptor, called the Weber Local Descriptor (WLD). It is based on the fact that hum...
Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Chu He, Guoying Zhao, Mat...
With the popularity of "bag of visual terms" representations of images, many text indexing techniques have been applied in large-scale image retrieval systems. However, ...
Xiao Zhang, Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Heu...
We introduce the distributed gradient clock synchronization problem. As in traditional distributed clock synchronization, we consider a network of nodes equipped with hardware clo...