Abstract. The development of real-time distributed applications requires middleware providing both reliability and performance. Middleware must be adaptable to meet application req...
Data-centric synchronization groups fields of objects into atomic sets to indicate they must be updated atomically. Each atomic set has associated units of work, code fragments th...
Mandana Vaziri, Frank Tip, Julian Dolby, Christian...
Crowd-sourcing tools such as Mechanical Turk are popular for annotation of large scale image data sets. Typically, these annotations consist of bounding boxes or coarse outlines o...
Nearly all Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEA) rely on random generation of initial population. In large and complex search spaces, this random method often leads to an ...
This paper proposes an approach to the problem of generating metadata for composite mixed-media digital objects by appropriately combining and exploiting existing knowledge or met...