To anticipate and prevent acts of terrorism, Indications and Warnings analysts try to connect clues gleaned from massive quantities of complex data. Multi-agent approaches to supp...
Peter Weinstein, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Paul Chiusan...
The popularity of distributed file systems continues to grow. Reasons they are preferred over traditional centralized file systems include fault tolerance, availability, scalabili...
Ragib Hasan, Zahid Anwar, William Yurcik, Larry Br...
The purpose of the paper is to introduce a new method for flexible storage of still images. The complete design of the system is described with the scalable encoding, the distorti...
Vincent Ricordel, Patrick Le Callet, Mathieu Carne...
This paper describes a method for improving the final accuracy and the convergence speed of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) by adapting its inertia factor in the velocity updati...
Storage systems in emerging large-scale (a.k.a. peta-scale) computing systems often introduce a performance or scalability bottleneck. To deal with these limitations we propose a ...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripean...