Accurately and efficiently estimating the number of distinct values for some attribute(s) or sets of attributes in a data set is of critical importance to many database operation...
Software that covertly monitors a user’s actions, also known as spyware, has become a first-level security threat due to its ubiquity and the difficulty of detecting and remov...
Debra L. Cook, Ricardo A. Baratto, Angelos D. Kero...
Tracking speakers in multiparty conversations constitutes a fundamental task for automatic meeting analysis. In this paper, we present a probabilistic approach to jointly track th...
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Guillaume Lathoud, Jean-Marc ...
Traditionally, scheduling in high-end parallel systems focuses on how to minimize the average job waiting time and on how to maximize the overall system utilization. Despite the d...
We propose a simple and intuitive cost mechanism which assigns costs for the competitive usage of m resources by n selfish agents. Each agent has an individual demand; demands are...
Marios Mavronicolas, Panagiota N. Panagopoulou, Pa...