We analyze the illumination invariance of the level lines of an image. We show that if the scene surface has Lambertian reflectance and the light is directed, then a necessary and...
Pierre Weiss, Alexandre Fournier, Laure Blanc-F&ea...
Correctness of data residing in a database is vital. While integrity constraint enforcement can often ensure data consistency, it is inadequate to protect against updates that inv...
Su Chen, Xin Luna Dong, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Div...
—The number of real-world applications that require QoS guarantees is constantly increasing and they often follow the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) messaging paradigm, which provid...
Shuo Guo, Kyriakos Karenos, Minkyong Kim, Hui Lei,...
Abstract—In recent years, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) streaming systems experienced tremendous growth and became one of the largest bandwidth consumer on Internet. PPLive, one of the most...
Most of the hard-real-time scheduling theory for multiprocessor systems assumes independent periodic or sporadic tasks. Such a simple task model is not directly applicable to mode...