Recently, a lot of research has been conducted into the usefulness of gait for identification at a distance. Since the gait of a person is readily identified when extracted from...
Abstract - This paper presents an improvement over a previous contour closure algorithm. Assuming that edge points are given as input, the proposed approach consists of two steps. ...
In this paper we present a new form of revocable lock that streamlines the construction of higher level concurrency abstractions such as atomic multi-word heap updates. The key id...
This paper presents the key features of a new negotiation model for autonomous agents. The model is generic, handles multi-party and multi-issue negotiation, acknowledges the role...
Fernando Lopes, Augusto Q. Novais, Nuno J. Mamede,...
A partitioning of a set of n items is a grouping of these items into k disjoint, equally sized classes. Any partition can be modeled as a graph. The items become the vertices of th...