Cluster-based multi-tier systems provide a means for building scalable Internet services. Building adaptive Internet services that are able to apply appropriate system sizing and ...
This paper introduces an approach to develop componentbased adaptive distributed applications. Our approach separates the communication and the functional aspects of a distributed...
An Phung-Khac, Antoine Beugnard, Jean-Marie Gillio...
Current object-oriented formalisms, such as UML, focus on describing class models and use instance models only for depicting scenarios. Little attention is being devoted to defini...
The usage of Gaussian mixture models for video segmentation has been widely adopted. However, the main difficulty arises in choosing the best model complexity. High complex models ...
While existing mathematical descriptions can accurately account for phenomena at microscopic scales (e.g. molecular dynamics), these are often high-dimensional, stochastic and thei...