Abstract. We propose an indexing technique for the fast retrieval of objects in 2D images based on similarity between their boundary shapes. Our technique is robust in the presence...
Abstract-- A large amount of the world's data is both sequential and imprecise. Such data is commonly modeled as Markovian streams; examples include words/sentences inferred f...
Julie Letchner, Christopher Re, Magdalena Balazins...
Abstract. We propose a new formalisation of stability for Rely-Guarantee, in which an assertion's stability is encoded into its syntactic form. This allows two advances in mod...
Abstract. We consider the framework of stochastic multi-armed bandit problems and study the possibilities and limitations of strategies that explore sequentially the arms. The stra...
SBASCO provides a new programming model for parallel and distributed numerical applications which exploits the combination of software components and skeletons. This paper present...