Assuming iterative decoding for binary erasure channels (BECs), a novel tree-based technique for upper bounding the bit error rates (BERs) of arbitrary, finite low-density parity-c...
Chih-Chun Wang, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, H. Vincent Po...
Many combinatorial optimization problems such as the bin packing and multiple knapsack problems involve assigning a set of discrete objects to multiple containers. These problems ...
Abstract—In this paper, three approaches to utilizing objectlevel spatial contextual information for semantic image analysis are presented and comparatively evaluated. Contextual...
Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, Carsten Saathoff, Hugo ...
An increasing percentage of the data needed by business applications is being generated in XML format. Storing the XML in its native format will facilitate new applications that e...
Alan Halverson, Vanja Josifovski, Guy M. Lohman, H...
Preferences in constraint problems are common but significant in many real world applications. In this paper, we extend our conditional and composite CSP (CCCSP) framework, managi...