The skyline query returns the most interesting tuples according to a set of explicitly defined preferences among attribute values. This work relaxes this requirement, and allows us...
Unlike their hard realtime counterparts, soft realtime applications are only expected to guarantee their ”expected delay” over input data space. This paradigm shift calls for ...
A conic integer program is an integer programming problem with conic constraints. Conic integer programming has important applications in finance, engineering, statistical learnin...
Although Semantic Web service discovery has been extensively studied in the literature ([7], [12], [15] and [10]), we are far from achieving an effective, complete and automated di...
—We propose a probabilistic formulation of joint silhouette extraction and 3D reconstruction given a series of calibrated 2D images. Instead of segmenting each image separately i...