Research and development on the survivability of networks has largely focused on public switched telecommunications networks and high speed data networks with little attention on the survivability of wireless access networks supporting cellular and PCS communications. This paper provides an overview of the survivability issues in PCS networks with emphasis on the unique difficulties presented b...

When most patients visit physicians in a clinic or a hospital, they are asked about their medical history and related medical tests’ results which might not exist or might simply have been lost over time. In emergency situations, many patients suffer or sadly die because of lack of pertinent medical information. Patient’s Health information (PHI) saved by Electronic Medical Record (EMR) could b...

Delegating difficult computations to remote large computation facilities, with appropriate security guarantees, is a possible solution for the ever-growing needs of personal computing power. For delegated computation protocols to be usable in a larger context—or simply to securely run two protocols in parallel— the security definitions need to be composable. Here, we define composable security ...

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In this paper, we present an extension to the real-time motion template research for computer vision as previously developed in (Davis 1997). The underlying representation is a Motion History Image (MHI) that temporally layers consecutive image silhouettes (or motion properties) of a moving person into a single template form. Originally a global, label-based method was used for recognition. In ...

In high performance computing, three recognized important points are us-ability, scalability and portability. No models seemed to satisfy these three steps till recently: a few proposed models try to fullll the previous goals. Among them, the BSP-like CGM model seemed adapted to us to facilitate the way between algorithms design and real implementations. Many algorithms have been designed but f...

Feature selection is an important area in the machine learning, specifically in pattern recognition. However, it has not received so many focuses in Writer Identification domain. Therefore, this paper is meant for exploring the usage of feature selection in this domain. Various filter and wrapper feature selection methods are selected and their performances are analyzed using image dataset from...