Computer and Information Sciences is a unique and comprehensive review of advanced technology and research in the field of Information Technology. It provides an up to date snapshot of research in Europe and the Far East (Hong Kong, Japan and China) in the most active areas of information technology, including Computer Vision, Data Engineering, Web Engineering, Internet Technologies, Bio-Informatics and System Performance Evaluation Methodologies.
Author(s): George Lagogiannis, Nikos Lorentzos (auth.), Erol Gelenbe, Ricardo Lent, Georgia Sakellari, Ahmet Sacan, Hakki Toroslu, Adnan Yazici (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 62
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 424
Tags: Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Partially Persistent B-trees with Constant Worst Case Update Time....Pages 3-6
Using Mixture of Experts Method in Combining Search-Guiding Heuristics for Theorem Proving....Pages 7-10
Univariate Margin Tree....Pages 11-16
Transformational Programming and the Derivation of Algorithms....Pages 17-22
Factorizing three-way binary data....Pages 23-26
Boosting Pattern Matching Performance via k -bit Filtering....Pages 27-32
Network flow approaches for an asset-task assignment problem with execution uncertainty....Pages 33-38
A Genetic Algorithm Approach to the Artillery Target Assignment Problem....Pages 39-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Scheduling services in a queuing system with impatience and setup costs....Pages 45-50
Multiple Class Symmetric G-networks with Phase Type....Pages 51-56
Stochastic comparisons applied to G-Networks with catastrophes....Pages 57-60
Measures for Evaluating the Software Agent Pro-Activity....Pages 61-64
On product-form approximations of cooperating stochastic models....Pages 65-70
Queue with limited volume, a diffusion approximation approach....Pages 71-74
Exactly Solvable Stochastic Processes for Traffic Modelling....Pages 75-78
Actor Petri net Model: toward Suitable and Flexible Level Representation of Scientific Workflows....Pages 79-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Developing a Scoring Function for NMR Structure-based Assignments using Machine Learning....Pages 87-90
Data and Model Driven Hybrid Approach to Activity Scoring of Cyclic Pathways....Pages 91-94
A Novel Hybrid Electrocardiogram Signal Compression Algorithm with Low Bit-Rate....Pages 95-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
A Roadmap for Semantifying Recommender Systems Using Preference Management....Pages 101-104
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Summarization of Documentaries....Pages 105-108
A Content Boosted Collaborative Filtering Approach for Movie Recommendation Based on Local & Global Similarity and Missing Data Prediction....Pages 109-112
A Hybrid Named Entity Recognizer for Turkish with Applications to Different Text Genres....Pages 113-116
Translation Relationship Quantification: A Cluster-Based Approach and its Application to Shakespeare’s Sonnets....Pages 117-120
Conceptual Hierarchical Clustering of Documents using Wikipedia knowledge....Pages 121-126
Data Engineering in Graph Databases....Pages 127-132
Distributed Database Design with Genetic Algorithm and Relation Clustering Heuristic....Pages 133-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Density Sensitive Based Spectral Clustering....Pages 139-142
Dependence Analysis for Regression Test Suite Selection and Augmentation....Pages 143-148
FLIP-ECOC: A Greedy Optimization of the ECOC Matrix....Pages 149-154
Learning in the feed-forward Random Neural Network: A Critical Review....Pages 155-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
An Energy Efficient Location Service for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks....Pages 163-168
A Low-latency and Self-adapting Application Layer Multicast....Pages 169-172
A Data-Centric Framework for Network Enabled C4ISR Software Systems....Pages 173-176
A Decentralised, Measurement-based Admission Control Mechanism for Self-Aware Networks....Pages 177-182
A Heuristic for Fast Convergence in Interference-free Channel Assignment Using D1EC Coloring....Pages 183-186
Combining Monitoring and Privacy-Protection Perspectives in a Semantic Model for IP Traffic Measurements....Pages 187-190
Priority Encoding of Image Data in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks for Border Surveillance....Pages 191-194
Energy-aware Routing with Two-group Allocation in Ad Hoc Networks....Pages 195-198
ProFID: Practical Frequent Item Set Discovery in Peer-to-Peer Networks....Pages 199-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Face Signatures Derived from the Trace Transform....Pages 205-208
Automatic and Self-adaptive Facial Expression Tracking....Pages 209-216
Eye contact with a virtual character using a vision-based head tracker....Pages 217-225
Gender and Age Groups Classifications for Semantic Annotation of Videos....Pages 227-230
Analysis of Face Recognition Algorithms for Online and Automatic Annotation of Personal Videos....Pages 231-236
Classification of Multispectral Satellite Land Cover Data by 3D Local Discriminant Bases Algorithm....Pages 237-240
Binary and Ternary Coded Structured Light 3D Scanner for Shiny Objects....Pages 241-244
Gender Classification via Gradientfaces....Pages 245-251
Adult Image Content Classification Using Global Features and Skin Region Detection....Pages 253-258
Texture Classification and Retrieval Based on Complex Wavelet Subbands....Pages 259-264
A Compression Method Based on Compressive Sampling for 3-D Laser Range Scans of Indoor Environments....Pages 265-270
Two-Dimensional Mellin and Mel-Cepstrum for Image Feature Extraction....Pages 271-276
Similarity-Transformation Invariant Reversible Watermarking for 3D Models....Pages 277-282
A Novel Image Compression Method Based on Classified Energy and Pattern Blocks: Initial Results....Pages 283-288
An SVD based Common Matrix Method for Face Recognition: Single Image per Person....Pages 289-292
Shape and Texture based Face Recognition on Overlapping 3D Sub-regions....Pages 293-298
Cepstrum Based Method for Moving Shadow Detection in Video....Pages 299-304
Joint Utilization of Appearance and Geometry for Scene Logo Retrieval....Pages 305-308
Spatial Sampling for Image Segmentation....Pages 309-314
Kernel and Spectral Methods for Learning the Semantics of Images....Pages 315-320
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
A Context-Sensitive Approach for Ontology Mapping Using Concepts Substitution Semantics....Pages 323-328
Providing Scalability for an Automated Web Service Composition Framework....Pages 329-332
Suggest Me a Movie: A Multi-Client Movie Recommendation Application on Facebook....Pages 333-338
Optimal Design of Web Information Contents for E-Commerce Applications....Pages 339-344
Semantic Music Information Retrieval Using Collaborative Indexing and Filtering....Pages 345-350
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Efficient Algorithms for Discovering Frequent and Maximal Substructures from Large Semistructured Data....Pages 353-358
Discrete Structure Manipulation for Discovery Science Problems....Pages 359-364
Recent Experiences in Parameter-Free Data Mining....Pages 365-371
Improving the Time Efficiency of ILP-based Multi-Relational Concept Discovery with Dynamic Programming Approach....Pages 373-376
Front Matter....Pages 377-377
An Information Theory Based Behavioral Model for Agent-Based Crowd Simulations....Pages 379-382
Task-Parallel FP-Growth on Cluster Computers....Pages 383-388
An Adaptive System for Movement Decision Support in Building Evacuation....Pages 389-392
A Maximum Degree Self-Stabilizing Spanning Tree Algorithm....Pages 393-396
Front Matter....Pages 397-397
Defect-Tolerant Logic Mapping for Nanocrossbars Based on Two-Dimensional Sort....Pages 399-404
Faster Montgomery Modular Multiplication without Pre-computational Phase For Some Classes of Finite Fields....Pages 405-408
Hybrid Heuristics for Optimizing Energy Consumption in Embedded Systems....Pages 409-414
A Truly Random Number Generator Based on a Pulse Excited Cross Coupled Chaotic Oscillator....Pages 415-420
Back Matter....Pages 421-423
