In this paper we develop a theory for characterizing how deformable a shape is given a sequence of its observations. We define a term called ‘‘deformability index’’ (DI) ...
Sorting a list of input numbers is one of the most fundamental problems in the field of computer science in general and high-throughput database applications in particular. Althou...
Jatin Chhugani, Anthony D. Nguyen, Victor W. Lee, ...
In large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) Video-on-Demand (VoD) streaming applications, a fundamental challenge is to quickly locate new supplying peers whenever a VCR command is issued, ...
Xuanjia Qiu, Wei Huang, Chuan Wu, Francis C. M. La...
This paper presents Capriccio, a scalable thread package for use with high-concurrency servers. While recent work has advocated event-based systems, we believe that threadbased sy...
J. Robert von Behren, Jeremy Condit, Feng Zhou, Ge...
The discipline of narratology has long recognized the need to classify documents as instances of different text types. We have discovered that classification is as applicable to h...