Web services are increasingly being used to expose applications over the Internet. These Web services are being integrated within and across enterprises to create higher function ...
PEPA has recently been extended with functional rates [1][2]. These functions allow the specification of indirect interaction between components in such a way that the rate of an a...
Feature extraction and similarity measurement are two important operations in content-based image retrieval systems. We optimize and vectorize typical feature extraction algorithm...
We consider algorithms for combining advice from a set of experts. In each trial, the algorithm receives the predictions of the experts and produces its own prediction. A loss func...
To compensate for the inherent impedance mismatch between the relational data model (tables of tuples) and XML (ordered, unranked trees), tree join algorithms have become the prev...