In this paper a novel electronic payment protocol suitable for “peer-to-peer” (P2P) networks is presented. It implements electronic cash-based transactions, between buyers and...
—In this paper, we introduce a feature-preserving denoising algorithm. It is built on the premise that the underlying surface of a noisy mesh is piecewise smooth, and a sharp fea...
Automatic evaluation of Machine Translation (MT) quality is essential to developing highquality MT systems. Various evaluation metrics have been proposed, and BLEU is now used as ...
Hideki Isozaki, Tsutomu Hirao, Kevin Duh, Katsuhit...
We initiate the study of error confinement in distributed applications, where the goal is that only nodes that were directly hit by a fault may deviate from their correct external...
Abstract. Many classes of images exhibit sparse structuring of statistical dependency. Each variable has strong statistical dependency with a small number of other variables and ne...