Catastrophic disruptions of large, interconnected infrastructure systems are often due to cascading failure. For example, large blackouts of electric power systems are typically c...
Foregrounds extracted from the background, which are intended to be used as photorealistic avatars for simulators in a variety of virtual worlds, should satisfy the following four ...
Abstract. We consider suffix tree construction for situations with missing suffix links. Two examples of such situations are suffix trees for parameterized strings and suffix trees...
Multiple description coding (MDC) is source coding for multiple channels such that a decoder which receives an arbitrary subset of the channels may produce a useful reconstruction...
We consider learning in situations where the function used to classify examples may switch back and forth between a small number of different concepts during the course of learnin...