With the popularity of location-based services and the abundant usage of smart phones and GPS enabled devices, the necessity of outsourcing spatial data has grown rapidly over the...
Ling Hu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Spiridon Bakiras, Cyrus Sha...
Background: In a previous study, we demonstrated that some essential proteins from pathogenic organisms contained sizable insertions/deletions (indels) when aligned to human prote...
Simon K. Chan, Michael Hsing, Fereydoun Hormozdiar...
As silicon technologies move into the nanometer regime, transistor reliability is expected to wane as devices become subject to extreme process variation, particle-induced transie...
Kypros Constantinides, Stephen Plaza, Jason A. Blo...
Group communication protocols constitute a basic building block for highly dependable distributed applications. Designing and correctly implementing a group communication system (...
Claudio Basile, Long Wang, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ra...
This paper presents a fast and robust sprite generation algorithm for MPEG-4 video coding. Our contributions consist of two aspects. Firstly, a fast and robust Global Motion Estima...