Within the realms of workflow management and grid computing, scheduling of distributed services is a central issue. Most schedulers balance time and cost to fit within a client...
This paper describes a new approach on how to teach a robot everyday manipulation tasks under the “Learning from Observation” framework. Most of the approaches so far assume t...
Koichi Ogawara, Jun Takamatsu, Hiroshi Kimura, Kat...
Traditional image retrieval techniques search for images without considering the query context. When they are applied to applications like annotating text with images, the results...
The processing of data is often restricted by contractual and legal requirements for protecting privacy and IPRs. Policies provide means to control how and by whom data is processe...
—Load balancing is a common approach for task assignment in distributed architectures. In this paper, we show that the degree of inefficiency in load balancing designs is highly...