We analyze quality-contingent prices as a mechanism for mitigating the effects of quality uncertainty in e-commerce and IT goods services. A contingency pricing contract specifie...
The importance of location prediction is rapidly increasing with the current trend of database applications in mobile computing environment. However, current personal communicatio...
Ming-Hui Jin, Eric Hsiao-Kuang Wu, Jorng-Tzong Hor...
A Zero Overhead Loop Buffer (ZOLB) is an architectural feature that is commonly found in DSP processors. This buffer can be viewed as a compiler managed cache that contains a sequ...
Gang-Ryung Uh, Yuhong Wang, David B. Whalley, Sanj...
e about image features can be expressed as a hierarchical structure called a Type Abstraction Hierarchy (TAH). TAHs can be generated automatically by clustering algorithms based on...
Wesley W. Chu, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira
Abstract: Efficient content-based similarity search in large multimedia databases requires efficient query processing algorithms for many practical applications. Especially in hi...