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ECOOPW
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Coordination and Adaptation Techniques for Software Entities
Abstract. Coordination and Adaptation are two key issues when developing complex distributed systems. Coordination focuses on the interaction among computational entities. Adaptati...
Carlos Canal, Juan Manuel Murillo, Pascal Poizat
IOR
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Compensating for Failures with Flexible Servers
We consider the problem of maximizing capacity in a queueing network with flexible servers, where the classes and servers are subject to failure. We assume that the interarrival ...
Sigrún Andradóttir, Hayriye Ayhan, D...
AINA
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Mining Visual Knowledge for Multi-Lingual Image Retrieval
Users commonly rely just on scarce textual annotation when their searches for images are semantic or conceptual based. Rich visual information is often thrown away in basic annota...
Masashi Inoue
AMDO
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Online and Offline Fingerprint Template Update Using Minutiae: An Experimental Comparison
Abstract. Although the template fingerprint collected during the registration phase of personal verification systems can be considered in principle as representative of the subject...
Biagio Freni, Gian Luca Marcialis, Fabio Roli
HICSS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Fundamental Ethics in Information Systems
Information systems often present virtual spaces that are sufficient to enable important human interaction. By enabling such interaction, systems designers are inherently creating...
Christopher N. Chapman