In this paper, we investigate an efficient off-line scheduling algorithm in which real-time tasks with precedence constraints are executed in a heterogeneous environment. It provi...
Abstract The explosion of content in distributed information retrieval (IR) systems requires new mechanisms to attain timely and accurate retrieval of unstructured text. In this pa...
Hadoop has become a critical component in today’s cloud environment. Ensuring good performance for Hadoop is paramount for the wide-range of applications built on top of it. In ...
It is a challenging task to accurately model the performance of a face recognition system, and to predict its individual recognition results under various environments. This paper...
We extend a recently-proposed framework for the rate-distortion optimized transmission of packetized media. The original framework assumed that media packets each have a single arr...