The ability of communicating with a selected party anonymously is an important aspect of network security. Communicating anonymously means that no adversary can discern who is com...
The problem of order release planning for a make-toorder production facility is addressed. Traditionally, order-release planning in a multi-stage shop is performed with material r...
Edward F. Watson, Deborah J. Medeiros, Randall P. ...
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...
In [1], Adaptive Prediction Error Coding (APEC) in spatial and frequency domain is proposed and significantly improves the coding efficiency of video coders. However, this approac...
Abstract. Extrema of curvature are useful key points for different image analysis tasks. Indeed, polygonal approximation or arc decomposition methods used often these points to ini...