Service providers and their customers agree on certain quality of service guarantees through Service Level Agreements (SLA). An SLA contains one or more Service Level Objectives (S...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
Many computer vision algorithms such as object tracking and event detection assume that a background model of the scene under analysis is known. However, in many practical circums...
Abstract. Transmission Ultrasound Computed Tomography (CT) is strongly affected by the acoustic refraction properties of the imaged tissue, and proper modeling and correction of th...
Shengying Li, Klaus Mueller, Marcel Jackowski, ...
Volunteer distributed computations utilize spare processor cycles of personal computers that are connected to the Internet. The resulting platforms provide computational power pre...
Doug Szajda, Michael Pohl, Jason Owen, Barry G. La...
Global public computing platforms, such as PlanetLab, grid computing systems, and XenoServers, require facilities for managing trust to allow their participants to interact effect...