Database-centric information systems are critical to the operations of large organisations. In particular, they often process a large amount of data with stringent performance req...
How to effectively allocate system resource to meet the Service Level Agreement (SLA) of Web servers is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an improved scheme for aut...
The fully informed particle swarm optimization algorithm (FIPS) is very sensitive to changes in the population topology. The velocity update rule used in FIPS considers all the ne...
This paper proposes a novel approach to constituting all the feasible ways of folding, based on crease infomation obtained from an image of illustrations of general origami drill ...
Repetition of layout structure is prevalent in document images. In document design, such repetition conveys the underlying logical and functional structure of the data. For exampl...