Abstract. This paper describes the design of the first large-scale IR test collection built for the Czech language. The creation of this collection also happens to be very challen...
Pavel Ircing, Pavel Pecina, Douglas W. Oard, Jianq...
We present a two-stage template-based method to detect people in widely varying thermal imagery. The approach initially performs a fast screening procedure using a generalized tem...
Abstract— To meet the challenge of increasing design complexity, designers are turning to system level design languages to model systems at a higher level of abstraction. This pa...
Abstract. The increasing volume of digital communication is raising new challenges in the management of the information flow. We discuss the usage of context to infer presence info...
Upgrading the software of long-lived distributed systems is difficult. It is not possible to upgrade all the nodes in a system at once, since some nodes may be down and halting t...