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CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Sparsity, redundancy and optimal image support towards knowledge-based segmentation
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to model shape variations. It encodes sparsity, exploits geometric redundancy, and accounts for the different degrees of local variation...
Salma Essafi, Georg Langs, Nikos Paragios
WSC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Towards a framework for healthcare simulation
The changing needs of healthcare provision around the world are forcing service designers and decision makers to adopt new tools in design and evaluation of processes. Apart from ...
Tillal Eldabi, Terry Young
HPDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Toward high performance computing in unconventional computing environments
Parallel computing on volatile distributed resources requires schedulers that consider job and resource characteristics. We study unconventional computing environments containing ...
Brent Rood, Nathan Gnanasambandam, Michael J. Lewi...
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Towards Autonomic Service Provisioning Systems
This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...
Michele Mazzucco
COMGEO
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
What to do with 500M location requests a day?
Skyhook Wireless provides hybrid positioning to millions of mobile devices around the world. Using an approach that integrates cell, WiFi, and GPS signals, the system services ove...
Kipp Jones, Richard Sutton