In this paper we address the problem of detecting shots of subjects that are interviewed in news sequences. This is useful since usually these kinds of scenes contain important an...
Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database, replicated among one or more servers, while hiding the identity of the retrieved item. ...
One of the most important, common and critical management issues lies in determining the "best" project portfolio out of a given set of investment proposals. As this dec...
Karl F. Doerner, Walter J. Gutjahr, Richard F. Har...
In this paper we investigate the use of preprocessing when solving Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF). Many different problems can be efficiently encoded as QBF instances, and there...
As the rapid growth of PDF document in digital libraries, recognizing the document structure and detecting specific document components are useful for document storage, classifica...