Active contours were proposed by Kass et al. as a way to represent the contours of an image. Although the method is simple, one of its shortcomings is its inability to converge in...
In the present paper, we examine the problem of supporting application-specific computation within a network file server. Our objectives are (i) to introduce an easy to use yet ...
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Rajiv Wickremesinghe, Je...
Unlike machines, we humans are prone to boredom when we perform routine activities for long periods of time. Workers’ mental engagement in boring tasks diminishes, which eventua...
Dvijesh Shastri, Yuichi Fujiki, Ross Buffington, P...
Group communications (multicast) are foreseen to be one of the most critical yet challenging technologies to meet the exponentially growing demands for data distribution in a large...