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ICCV
2003
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Counting People in Crowds with a Real-Time Network of Simple Image Sensors
Estimating the number of people in a crowded environment is a central task in civilian surveillance. Most vision-based counting techniques depend on detecting individuals in order...
Danny B. Yang, Héctor H. González-Ba...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy: the nature and roles of policies and rules in wikipedia
Wikis are sites that support the development of emergent, collective infrastructures that are highly flexible and open, suggesting that the systems that use them will be egalitari...
Brian S. Butler, Elisabeth Joyce, Jacqueline Pike
ICAC
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Autonomous Return on Investment Analysis of Additional Processing Resources
As the use of virtualization and partitioning grows, it becomes possible to deploy a multi-tier web-based application with a variable amount of computing power. This introduces th...
Jonathan Wildstrom, Peter Stone, Emmett Witchel
HIPC
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A-FAST: Autonomous Flow Approach to Scheduling Tasks
Abstract. This paper investigates the problem of autonomously allocating a large number of independent, equal sized tasks on a distributed heterogeneous grid-like platform, using o...
Sagnik Nandy, Larry Carter, Jeanne Ferrante
COMAD
2009
15 years 5 months ago
On the Complexity of Multi-Query Optimization in Stream Grids
Stream grids are wide-area grid computing environments that are fed by a set of stream data sources. Such grids are becoming more wide-spread due to the large scale deployment of ...
Saikat Mukherjee, Srinath Srinivasa, Krithi Ramamr...