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COR
2011
15 years 1 months ago
A squeaky wheel optimisation methodology for two-dimensional strip packing
The two dimensional strip packing problem occurs in industries such as metal, wood, glass, paper, and textiles. The problem involves cutting shapes from a larger stock sheet or ro...
Edmund K. Burke, Matthew R. Hyde, Graham Kendall
FGR
2008
IEEE
243views Biometrics» more  FGR 2008»
16 years 19 days ago
Real-time face recognition for human-robot interaction
The ability to recognize people is a key element for improving human-robot interaction in service robots. There are many approaches for face recognition; however, these assume unr...
Claudia Cruz, Luis Enrique Sucar, Eduardo F. Moral...
NOMS
2000
IEEE
131views Communications» more  NOMS 2000»
15 years 10 months ago
Provision of global number portability using CORBA
Global Number Portability (GNP) is becoming a key service to increase competition and profit of a service provider for the ever-growing telephone marketplace. In this paper, we pr...
Kyu-Hyung Kim, Dong-Hee Lee, Eun-Ju Ha, Jong-Tae P...
NOMS
2000
IEEE
138views Communications» more  NOMS 2000»
15 years 10 months ago
Policy-based hybrid management architecture for IP-based VPN
Using IP-based Virtual Private Network (IP-VPN) technology, a company can establish its virtual private network over public networks. Recently, IP-VPN emerges as one of main techn...
Seung-Jin Baek, Moon-Sang Jeong, Jong-Tae Park, Ta...
JWSR
2008
109views more  JWSR 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
DsCWeaver: Synchronization-Constraint Aspect Extension to Procedural Process Specification Languages
BPEL is emerging as an open-standards language for Web service composition. However, its procedural style can lead to inflexible and tangled code for managing a crosscutting aspec...
Qinyi Wu, Calton Pu, Akhil Sahai, Roger S. Barga