Mitigating the impact of computer failure is possible if accurate failure predictions are provided. Resources, applications, and services can be scheduled around predicted failure...
This paper presents a principled framework for efficient processing of ad-hoc top-k (ranking) aggregate queries, which provide the k groups with the highest aggregates as results....
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas
We present a method that automatically detects chewing events in surveillance video of a subject. Firstly, an Active Appearance Model (AAM) is used to track a subject’s face acr...
Proper management of coastal wells is important in order to satisfy demand, minimize costs, control salinity increase, and ultimately to define water resource strategies which are...
T. Ka'eo Duarte, Riccardo Minciardi, Michela Robba...
In this paper, we consider the problem of supporting fault tolerance for adaptive and time-critical applications in heterogeneous and unreliable grid computing environments. Our g...