—In this contribution, duals of fountain codes are introduced and their use for lossy source compression is investigated. It is shown both theoretically and experimentally that t...
Dino Sejdinovic, Robert J. Piechocki, Angela Doufe...
This work deals with a new technique for the estimation of the parameters and number of components in a finite mixture model. The learning procedure is performed by means of a expe...
We present an adaptive load shedding approach for windowed stream joins. In contrast to the conventional approach of dropping tuples from the input streams, we explore the concept ...
The increased complexity of performance-sensitive software systems leads to increased use of automated adaptation policies in lieu of manual performance tuning. Composition of ada...
Jin Heo, Dan Henriksson, Xue Liu, Tarek F. Abdelza...
Adaptation to changing environmental conditions is a major challenge for most distributed applications. The service-oriented programming paradigm leads to an increasing number of ...