Complex systems experience dramatic changes in behavior and can undergo transitions from functional to dysfunctional states. An unstable system is prone to dysfunctional collective...
Local Binary Pattern (LBP) has been widely used in texture classification because of its simplicity and computational efficiency. Traditional LBP codes the sign of the local diffe...
In interest of low cost, low power consumption, and compact size, most digital cameras adopt a design of single sensor array coupled with a color filter array. This design inevita...
Service-Oriented Architecture enables the composition of loosely coupled services provided with varying Quality of Service (QoS) levels. Given a composition, finding the set of ser...
This paper investigates scheduling loosely coupled task-bundles in highly heterogeneous distributed systems. Two allocation quality metrics are used in pay-per-service distributed ...