Analysts and investors use Technical Analysis tools to create charts and price indicators that help them in decision making. Chart patterns and indicators are not deterministic and even analysts may have different interpretations, depending on their ...

We propose a new YC workload partitioning scheme which employs dynamic data driven simulations to conduct what-if experiments in container terminals. Both the optimal partition of the workload in a row of yard blocks and the optimal dispatching ...

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) are frequently solved over data residing in relational database systems. In such scenarios, the database is typically just used as a data storage back end. However, there exist important advantages, such as the ...

Reliability quantifies the ability of a system to perform its required function under stated conditions. The reliability of a decision is usually represented as the probability of an adequate functioning of the system where both the decision and ...

With the goal of addressing open and dynamic scenarios like the Web, in this paper we introduce a semantic-oriented extension of the tuple space model. In our model, each tuple space is equipped with the ontological description of the coordination ...

This paper addresses the problem of coordination within the Sensor Web, where the Sensor Web is defined as an amorphous network of spatially distributed nodes that sense various phenomena in the environment, that are battery powered, and that ...

This paper presents a study of subjective quality of scalable video sequences, coded using the scalable extension of the H.264 standard (SVC). A group of experiments was performed to measure, primarily, the effects that the transmission instability has ...

This paper describes PHOTOLAND, a system that visualizes hundreds of photos on a 2D grid space to help users manage their photos. It closely places similar photos in the grid based on temporal and spatial information. Most photograph management systems ...

Spam has become an increasingly important problem with a big economic impact in society. Spam filtering poses a special problem in text categorization, of which the defining characteristic is that filters face an active adversary, which constantly ...

One of the biggest problems of e-mail communication is the massive spam message delivery. Everyday, billion of unwanted messages are sent by spammers and this number does not stop growing. Helpfully, there are different approaches able to automatically ...

The development of the Web has been paralleled by the proliferation of a harmful content on its pages. Using Violent Web images as a case study, we tend to present a novel approach to their classification. This subject is of high importance as it has a ...

This paper presents logical foundations for an extension of Codd's relational model of data which aims at utilizing various aspects of similarity in data processing. A need for development of solid foundations for such extensions, sometimes called ...

This paper presents a new algorithm for filtering shadowy photos degraded by uneven light condition. The dark photos are harder to use for face recognition or even an analysis of the scene. Corrections can be made using commercial tools as Photoshop™ ...

This paper introduces and documents a novel image database specifically built for the purpose of development and bench-marking of camera-based digital forensic techniques. More than 14,000 images of various indoor and outdoor scenes have been acquired ...

In this paper, we propose the use of periocular skin texture as a biometric modality. Salient skin texture features are extracted and represented using Local Binary Patterns (LBPs). Matching is performed using CityBlock distance as a measure of ...

In this paper, a discriminated correlation classifier is proposed to improve the performance of the two-dimensional (2-D) face recognition algorithm. Until now, many methods have been proposed to address the problems encountered by face recognition ...

Watermarking has been suggested as a means to improve security of biometric systems or to add additional functionalities to such systems. We experimentally investigate the impact of applying a set of blind robust watermarking schemes on the recognition ...