— In this paper we develop a new dual decomposition method for optimizing a sum of convex objective functions corresponding to multiple agents but with coupled constraints. In ou...
The large shape variability and partial occlusions challenge most object detection and tracking methods for nonrigid targets such as pedestrians. Single camera tracking is limited...
Manas Kamal Bhuyan, Brian C. Lovell, Abbas Bigdeli
The suitability of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) approaches for fulltext web retrieval has recently been questioned because of the claimed unacceptable bandwidth consumption induced by retri...
Ivana Podnar, Martin Rajman, Toan Luu, Fabius Klem...
We consider a cooperative wireless network where the source broadcasts data to relays, some or all of which cooperatively beamform to forward the data to the destination. The netw...
Ritesh Madan, Neelesh B. Mehta, Andreas F. Molisch...
This paper discusses extensions to the Rover toolkit for constructing reliable mobile-aware applications. The extensions improve upon the existing failure model, which only addres...