Abstract. In this paper we introduce a multi-stage decision making procedure where decision makers' opinions are weighted by their contribution to the agreement after they sor...
Using the 138,751 patents filed in 2006 under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, coclassification analysis is pursued on the basis of three- and four-digit codes in the International ...
: Grids provide uniform access to aggregations of heterogeneous resources and services such as computers, networks and storage owned by multiple organizations. However, such a dyna...
Search engines provide cached copies of indexed content so users will have something to “click on” if the remote resource is temporarily or permanently unavailable. Depending ...
Matrix transpose in parallel systems typically involves costly all-to-all communications. In this paper, we provide a comparative characterization of various efficient algorithms f...