In distributed and mobile environments, the connections among the hosts on which a software system is running are often unstable. As a result of connectivity losses, the overall av...
Access to large numbers of data sources introduces new problems for users of heterogeneous distributed databases. End users and application programmers must deal with unavailable ...
Anthony Tomasic, Louiqa Raschid, Patrick Valduriez
Over the past ten years, face detection has been thoroughly studied in computer vision research for its interesting applications. However, all of the state-of-the-art statistical ...
Locating physical items is a highly relevant application addressed by numerous systems. Many of these systems share the drawback that costly infrastructure must be installed before...
Christian Frank, Philipp Bolliger, Christof Rodune...
While there is a lot of empirical evidence showing that traditional rule learning approaches work well in practice, it is nearly impossible to derive analytical results about thei...