Storage systems such as file systems, databases, and RAID systems have a simple, basic contract: you give them data, they do not lose or corrupt it. Often they store the only copy...
A transient hardware fault occurs when an energetic particle strikes a transistor, causing it to change state. These faults do not cause permanent damage, but may result in incorr...
David Walker, Lester W. Mackey, Jay Ligatti, Georg...
In this paper we present the B-coder, an efficient binary arithmetic coder that performs extremely well on a wide range of data. The B-coder should be classed as an `approximate...
Abstract. The manual acquisition and modeling of tourist information as e.g. addresses of points of interest is time and, therefore, cost intensive. Furthermore, the encoded inform...
Automatic facial expression analysis is an important aspect of Human Machine Interaction as the face is an important communicative medium. We use our face to signal interest, disa...