Background subtraction is a crucial step in many automatic video content analysis
applications. While numerous acceptable techniques have been proposed so far for …

As the interest in using policy-based approaches for systems management grows, it is
becoming increasingly important to develop methods for performing analysis and refinement …

As the interest in using policy-based approaches for systems management grows, it is
becoming increasingly important to develop methods for performing analysis and refinement …

Policies are rules that govern the choices in behaviour of a system. Security policies define
what actions are permitted or not permitted, for what or for whom, and under what conditions …

This paper examines the state-of-the-art enabling technologies for network management,
including policy-based network management, distributed object computing, Web-based …

Policies are rules governing the choices in behaviour of a system. They are often used as a
means of implementing flexible and adaptive systems for management of internet services …

The management of policies in large-scale systems is complex because of the potentially
large number of policies and administrators, as well as the diverse types of information that …

Policy refinement is meant to derive lower-level policies from higher-level ones so that these
more specific policies are better suited for use in different execution environments. Although …

Policy refinement is meant to derive low-level enforceable policies from high-level
guidelines. Although recent advances have been made to solve this open problem, the …

Given very few images containing a common object of interest under severe variations in
appearance, we detect the common object and provide a compact visual representation of …