Abstract In the near future, it will be possible to continuously record and store the entire audio–visual lifetime of a person together with all digital information that the pers...
The inner silicon detector of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment (CMS) at CERN’s LHC consists of 16 588 modules. Charged-particle tracks in the detector are used to improve th...
With rapid technological advances in network infrastructure, programming languages, compatible component interfaces and so many more areas, today the computational Grid has evolve...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
This work presents a new approach to contour representation and coding. It consists of an improved fitting of high-degree (4th to 18th ) implicit polynomials (IPs) to the contour,...