Large-Scale multicast applications for the Internet require the availability of multicast protocols that enhance the basic connectionless IP Multicast service. A critical requirem...
This paper points out that many machine learning problems in IR should be and can be formalized in a novel way, referred to as `group-based learning'. In group-based learning...
We define a compositional operational semantics for state machines and their composition in UML. Each state machine describes the behavior of an object of a class. If a class of a...
Harald Fecher, Marcel Kyas, Willem P. de Roever, F...
We consider statistical mechanics systems defined on a set with some symmetry properties (namely, the set admits an action by a group, which is finitely generated and residually fi...
Due to distortion, noise, segmentation errors, overlap, and occlusion of objects in digital images, it is usually impossible to extract complete object contours or to segment the ...