This paper proposes a discriminative framework for efficiently aligning images. Although conventional Active Appearance Models (AAM)-based approaches have achieved some success, t...
Desktop Grids represent an alternative trend in Grid computing using the same software infrastructure as Volunteer Computing projects, such as BOINC. Applications to be deployed o...
Many modeling languages share some common concepts and principles. For example, Java, MOF, and UML share some aspects of the concepts of classes, methods, attributes, and inheritan...
We describe a design pattern for writing programs that traverse data structures built from rich mutually-recursive data types. Such programs often have a great deal of “boilerpl...
— We discuss the problem of resource provisioning for database management systems operating on top of an Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) cloud. To solve this problem, we descr...