ACIVS
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Several image mosaicing algorithms claiming to advance the state of the art have been proposed so far. Though sometimes improvements can be recognised without quantitative evidence...
ISER
1995
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
1995
Springer
We review the current state of research in autonomous mobile robots and conclude that there is an inadequate basis for predicting the reliability and behavior of robots operating ...
EAGC
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper presents the support for user-defined metrics in the G-PM performance analysis tool. G-PM addresses the demand for aggressive optimisation of Grid applications by using ...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
1998
IEEE
We introduce a new performance metric, called Load Balancing Factor (LBF), to assist programmers with evaluating different tuning alternatives. The LBF metric differs from traditi...
IWANN
1999
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
1999
Springer
The performance characteristics of five variants of the Hopfield network are examined. Two performance metrics are used: memory capacity, and a measure of the size of basins of att...
JSSPP
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2001
Springer
The arrival process of jobs submitted to a parallel system is bursty, leading to fluctuations in the load at many time scales. In particular, rare events of extreme load may occu...
GRID
2003
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2003
Springer
Resource discovery and monitoring in a distributed Grid environment gives rise to several issues, one of which is the provision of reliable performance and hence, the quality-ofse...
RTAS
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
A notable features of many proposed Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) deployments is their scale: hundreds to thousands of nodes linked together. In such systems, modeling the state...
ICN
2007
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
2007
Springer
— In this paper, we propose a simple but effective VPN mechanism called RING-VPN (Ring-based Virtual Private Network) that realizes a high scalability in terms of the number of V...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2007
IEEE
Faults in distributed systems can result in errors that manifest in several ways, potentially even in parts of the system that are not collocated with the root cause. These manife...