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ICIW
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
An Architecture for Reliable Mobile Workflow in a Grid Environment
— Mobile peer to peer (P2P) computing is becoming a major revolution in computing owing to advances in computing power, network connectivity and storage capacity of mobile device...
Bill Karakostas, George Fakas
ICPPW
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Decentralized Load Balancing for Improving Reliability in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
Abstract—A probabilistic analytical framework for decentralized load balancing (LB) strategies for heterogeneous distributed-computing systems (DCSs) is presented with the overal...
Jorge E. Pezoa, Sagar Dhakal, Majeed M. Hayat
ACCV
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Human Action Recognition Using Pyramid Vocabulary Tree
The bag-of-visual-words (BOVW) approaches are widely used in human action recognition. Usually, large vocabulary size of the BOVW is more discriminative for inter-class action clas...
Chunfeng Yuan, Xi Li, Weiming Hu, Hanzi Wang
ACCV
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Evolving Mean Shift with Adaptive Bandwidth: A Fast and Noise Robust Approach
Abstract. This paper presents a novel nonparametric clustering algorithm called evolving mean shift (EMS) algorithm. The algorithm iteratively shrinks a dataset and generates well ...
Qi Zhao, Zhi Yang, Hai Tao, Wentai Liu
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Like an intuitive and courteous butler: a proactive personal agent for task management
The ability to proactively offer assistance promises to make personal agents more helpful to their users. We characterize the properties desired of proactive behaviour by a person...
Neil Yorke-Smith, Shahin Saadati, Karen L. Myers, ...