Despite the extensive use of the agent technology in the Supply Chain Management field, its integration with Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) tools still represents a promis...
Luis Antonio de Santa-Eulalia, Sophie D'Amours, Je...
Many recently proposed perceptual image quality assessment algorithms are implemented in two stages. In the first stage, image quality is evaluated within local regions. This resu...
Lazy programs are beautiful, but they are slow because they build many thunks. Simple measurements show that most of these thunks are unnecessary: they are in fact always evaluate...
Software systems increasingly integrate Off-The-Shelf (OTS) components. However, due to the lack of knowledge about the reused OTS components, this integration is fragile and can ...
— In recent years, network coding has proved to be an efficient tool to disseminate data through a network. A number of practical schemes have been proposed to implement network...