— We propose an implementable new universal lossy source coding algorithm. The new algorithm utilizes two wellknown tools from statistical physics and computer science: Gibbs sam...
Abstract—The peer-to-peer networking concept has revolutionized the cost structure of Internet data dissemination by making large scale content delivery with low server cost feas...
The typical mode for querying in an image content-based information system is query-by-example, which allows the user to provide an image as a query and to search for similar imag...
Abstract. Evacuation planning is critical for numerous important applications, e.g. disaster emergency management and homeland defense preparation. Efficient tools are needed to pr...
We consider the problem of Scheduling n Independent Jobs on m Unrelated Parallel Machines, when the number of machines m is xed. We address the standard problem of minimizing the ...