For this year's Image CLEF Photo Retrieval task, we have prepared 5 submission runs to help us assess the effectiveness of 1) image content-based retrieval, and 2) textbased ...
In the search for high performance, most transactional memory (TM) systems execute atomic blocks concurrently and must thus be prepared for data conflicts. The TM system must then...
We propose a new method for solving structured CSPs which generalizes and improves the Cyclic-Clustering approach [4]. First, the cutset and the tree-decomposition of the constrai...
Hard problems for metaheuristic search can be a source of insight for developing better methods. We examine a challenging instance of such a problem that has exactly two local opt...
Abstract— Many applications require teams of robots to cooperatively execute complex tasks. Among these domains are those where successful coordination solutions must respect con...
Edward Gil Jones, M. Bernardine Dias, Anthony Sten...