Record label companies would like to identify potential artists as early as possible in their careers, before other companies approach the artists with competing contracts. The va...
—Large scale production grids are an important case for autonomic computing. They follow a mutualization paradigm: decision-making (human or automatic) is distributed and largely...
— Many image compression techniques require the quantization of multiple vector sources with significantly different distributions. With vector quantization (VQ), these sources ...
We consider triply-nested loops of the type that occur in the standard Gaussian elimination algorithm, which we denote by GEP (or the Gaussian Elimination Paradigm). We present tw...
The proliferation of video content on the web makes similarity detection an indispensable tool in web data management, searching, and navigation. In this paper, we propose a numbe...