Global Positioning System (GPS) Technology allows precise determination of location, velocity, direction, and time. The price of GPS receivers is falling rapidly and the applicatio...
Abstract—In the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market, spot instances refer to virtual servers that are rented via an auction. Spot instances allow IaaS provi...
Recognition of a person from gait has been a recent focus in computer vision. It is one biometric source that can be acquired at a distance. At this nascent stage of gait recognit...
In most cases when information is to be extracted from an image, there are priors available on the state of the world and therefore on the detailed measurements which will be obta...
In this paper we explore database segmentation in the context of a column-store DBMS targeted at a scientific database. We present a novel hardware- and scheme-oblivious segmentati...