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AP2PC
2003
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Fuzzy Cost Modeling for Peer-to-Peer Systems
The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
Bo Ling, Wee Siong Ng, Yanfeng Shu, Aoying Zhou
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Cooperative negotiation for soft real-time distributed resource allocation
In this paper we present a cooperative negotiation protocol that solves a distributed resource allocation problem while conforming to soft real-time constraints in a dynamic envir...
Roger Mailler, Victor R. Lesser, Bryan Horling
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Can software agents influence human relations?: balance theory in agent-mediated communities
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida,...
IBPRIA
2003
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
A Colour Tracking Procedure for Low-Cost Face Desktop Applications
In this paper we present an environment for the tracking of a human face obtained from a real video sequence. We will describe the system and discuss the advantages and disadvanta...
Francisco J. Perales López, Ramon Mas, Miqu...
3DPVT
2002
IEEE
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14 years 19 days ago
Towards Automatic Modeling of Monuments and Towers
Three-dimensional modeling from images, when carried out entirely by a human, can be time consuming and impractical for large-scale projects. On the other hand, full automation ma...
Sabry F. El-Hakim, J.-Angelo Beraldin, Jean-Fran&c...