Scalable similarity search is the core of many large scale learning or data mining applications. Recently, many research results demonstrate that one promising approach is creatin...
Bag of features (BoF) representation has attracted an increasing amount of attention in large scale image processing systems. BoF representation treats images as loose collections...
Lijun Zhang 0005, Chun Chen, Jiajun Bu, Zhengguang...
—One of the challenges of ambient systems lies in providing all the available services of the environment to the ambient devices, even if they do not physically host those servic...
In this paper we consider server farms with a setup cost. This model is common in manufacturing systems and data centers, where there is a cost to turn servers on. Setup costs alw...
The web is now being used as a general platform for hosting distributed applications like wikis, bulletin board messaging systems and collaborative editing environments. Data from...
Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Dave King 0002, Thom...