—The peer-to-peer technology offers many advantages, but at the same time, it poses many novel challenges for the research community. Modern peer-to-peer systems are characterize...
Metrics have long been used to measure and evaluate software products and processes. Many metrics have been developed that have lead to different degrees of success. Software arch...
The quadratic discriminant (QD) classifier has proved to be simple and effective in many pattern recognition problems. However, it requires the computation of the inverse of the sa...
Many design models and representations have been proposed to support user-centered system design, such as scenarios, use cases, and prototypes. With these artifacts, designers typ...
Given a collection of images of a static scene taken by many different people, we identify and segment interesting objects. To solve this problem, we use the distribution of images...