Up to now, there has been little academic support for the challenges of IT governance/IT management. As a reaction, various best practice frameworks - like COBIT or CMMI - were de...
I/O Virtualization provides a convenient way of device sharing among guest domains in a virtualized platform (e.g. Xen). However, with the ever-increasing number and variety of dev...
We believe that to fully support adaptive distributed applications, middleware must itself be adaptable, adaptive and policy-free. In this paper we present a new language-independ...
Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Stuart J. Norcros...
Active contours or snakes have been extensively utilized in handling image segmentation and classification problems. In traditional active contour models, snake initialization is ...
Conceptual design dominates the early stages of most creative design processes. During these stages, the designer makes important decisions about the parameters of a model that ar...