: Indexing video content is one of the most important problems in video databases. In this paper we present linear time and space algorithms for handling video metadata that repres...
Spyros Sioutas, Kostas Tsichlas, Bill Vassiliadis,...
This paper introduces AntNet, a novel approach to the adaptive learning of routing tables in communications networks. AntNet is a distributed, mobile agents based Monte Carlo syst...
—One of the main obstacles in obtaining high performance from message-passing multicomputer systems is the inevitable communication overhead which is incurred when tasks executin...
A novel frequency-domain technique for image blocking artifact detection and reduction is presented in this paper. The algorithm first detects the regions of the image which presen...
George A. Triantafyllidis, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Mic...
In the near future, commodity hardware is expected to incorporate both flash and magnetic disks. In this paper we study how the storage layer of a database system can benefit from...