Publish/subscribe systems are used increasingly often as a communication mechanism in loosely-coupled distributed applications. With their gradual adoption in mission critical are...
We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
Abstract—The split of a multihop, point to point TCP connection consists in replacing a plain, end-to-end TCP connection by a cascade of TCP connections. In such a cascade, conne...
— Multiple, independent robot platforms promise significant advantage with respect to robustness and flexibility. However, coordination between otherwise independent robots req...
John Sweeney, Huan Li, Roderic A. Grupen, Krithi R...
We propose an innovative, general purpose, approach to the selection and hierarchical representation of key frames of a video sequence for video summarization. In the first stage ...