Microprocessor vendors have provided special-purpose instructions such as psadbw and pdist to accelerate the sumof-absolute differences (SAD) similarity measurement. The usefulne...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Stamati...
Computer vision researchers have recently proposed several local descriptor schemes. Due to lack of database support, however, these descriptors have only been evaluated using sma...
We propose a simple and intuitive cost mechanism which assigns costs for the competitive usage of m resources by n selfish agents. Each agent has an individual demand; demands are...
Marios Mavronicolas, Panagiota N. Panagopoulou, Pa...
Coalition formation methods allow agents to join together and are thus necessary in cases where tasks can only be performed cooperatively by groups. This is the case in the Reques...
Single-assignment languages with copy semantics have a very simple and approachable programming model. A na¨ıve implementation of the copy semantics that copies the result of eve...