Technical Reports (Computing Science)

1998

Marsland, Tony, Bjornsson, Y.

Technical report TR98-07. The thinking-process used by computers for chess and other two-person games differs significantly from the one used by humans. While humans consider at most a few alternatives when deciding what to play, computers exhaustively search all the possible moves. In the half...

2012

Yang, Yee-Hong (Herb), Maani, Rouzbeh, Kalra, Sanjay

This paper presents a novel, simple, yet powerful texture analysis method inspired by the well-known Local Binary Patterns (LBP) method called the Local Frequency Descriptors (LFD). Like LBP, the proposed method is invariant to rotation and linear changes of illumination; however,it does not...

2001

Zhang, Huaxin

Technical report TR01-15. Application interoperability is a challenging problem because different applications assume different data types and control-of-processing models. Even when related applications are aggregated in so-called portals, it is up to the user of the portal to access the...

2004

Cutumisu, M., McNaughton, M., Parker, D., Schaeffer, Jonathan, Redford, J., Szafron, Duane

Technical report TR04-05. Recently, some researchers have argued that generative design patterns (GDPs) can leverage the obvious design re-use that characterizes traditional design patterns into code re-use. This paper provides additional evidence that GDPs are both useful and productive. ...

2005

Greiner, Russell, Schmidt, Mark, Levner, Ilya

Technical report TR05-19. Detecting and segmenting brain tumors in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) is an important but time-consuming task performed by medical experts. Automating this process is a challenging task due to the often high degree of intensity and textural similarity between normal...

1992

You, Jia-Huai, Yuan, Li-Yan

Technical report TR92-17. The AGM postulates for knowledge base revision are a set of rationality postulates that revision operations on knowledge systems should satisfy. Defining an appropriate semantics for belief revision that satisfies all of the postulates has been considered a challenging...

2002

Levner, Ilya

Technical report TR02-18. This paper surveys the various techniques for shape recognition and analysis with emphasis on robustness. Specifically, a review of boundary shape analysis methods and techniques is presented followed by description and experimental results of a new technique, based on...

2001

Fan, Shuang

Technical report TR01-14. Among all the issues related to Content Based Image Retrieval systems, retrieving images based on their shapes is an important one. Many approaches exist utilizing shape representation and comparison, e.g., the methods based on Fourier descriptors. In this thesis, we...

1998

Eskicioglu, M. Rasit, Marsland, Tony

Technical report TR98-10. Distributed shared memory (DSM) is a useful abstraction both for deploying networks of workstations as a parallel multicomputer and for increasing the usability of non-uniform memory access multicomputers. It provides an alternative programming model for distributed...

1997

Culberson, Joseph

Technical report TR97-02. It is shown that the popular puzzle Sokoban can be used to emulate a linear bounded automata (finite tape Turing Machine (TM)). In particular, a construction is given that has a solution if and only if the corresponding Turing Machine on its input halts in the accept...