As online social networking emerges, there has been increased interest to utilize the underlying social structure as well as the available social information to improve search. In...
Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Manos Papagelis, Sushruth...
Search engines represent a key component of Web economy these days. Despite that, there is not much technical literature available on their design, fine tuning, and internal oper...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ramurti A. Barbosa, Paulo B...
Multi-agent systems are widely used to address large-scale distributed combinatorial applications in the real world. One such application is meeting scheduling (MS), which is de...
Our energy production increasingly depends on renewable energy sources, which impose new challenges for distributed and decentralized systems. One problem is that the availability...
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Detlev Heinemann, Johannes Hu...
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...