: Virtual Enterprises are an emerging model for the organization of innovative enterprises. They are characterized by brief relationships and geographical dispersion of members. E-...
Cooperative checkpointing, in which the system dynamically skips checkpoints requested by applications at runtime, can exploit system-level information to improve performance and ...
Most cooperative work takes place in information-rich environments. However, studies of "information work" tend to focus on the decontextualized access and retrieval pro...
The k-nearest neighbor rule is one of the simplest and most attractive pattern classification algorithms. However, it faces serious challenges when patterns of different classes...
In this paper, we focus on the reliable detection of facial fiducial points, such as eye, eyebrow and mouth corners. The proposed algorithm aims to improve automatic landmarking ...