In this paper we show how imposing an organization (topology and search mechanism) on agents in a peerto-peer network can improve system performance. The organizational structure ...
In recent years, many Mobile Payment (MP) schemes have been proposed and used in practise. However, a prerequisite for extended acceptance and adoption of MP technologies is to de...
This paper presents three reconfigurable computing approaches for a Shape-Adaptive Template Matching (SA-TM) method to retrieve arbitrarily shaped objects within images or video f...
As the number of available Web pages grows, users experience increasing difficulty finding documents relevant to their interests. One of the underlying reasons for this is that mo...
For content-based image retrieval techniques, query image is used to pick up and rank some relevant images from a database using some certain similarity metric. If semantic feature...