Side effects are both the essence and bane of imperative programming. The programmer must carefully coordinate actions to manage their side effects upon each other. Such coordinat...
Abstract. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised color image segmentation scheme using homotopy continuation method and Compound Markov Random Field (CMRF) model. The proposed s...
Abstract. Understanding relationships and commonalities between digital contents based on metadata is a difficult user task that requires sophisticated presentation forms. In this ...
Steffen Lohmann, Philipp Heim, Lena Tetzlaff, Thom...
Utility or preference elicitation is a critical component in many recommender and decision support systems. However, most frameworks for elicitation assume a predefined set of fe...
—The need for collaborative service provisioning across different providers’ domains is being addressed by Circles of Trust (CoT), whose members adhere to the same policies and...