A “scoring rule” is an assignment of a value to every tuple (of varying sizes). This paper is concerned with the issue of how to modify a scoring rule to apply to the case whe...
Periodic data backup is a system administration requirement that has changed as wireless machines have altered the fundamental structure of networks. These changes necessitate a c...
Gregory Pluta, Larry Brumbaugh, William Yurcik, Jo...
The Pallet Loading Problem (PLP) maximizes the number of identical rectangular boxes placed within a rectangular pallet. Boxes may be rotated 90° so long as they are packed with ...
This paper is concerned with the scalability of large-scale grid monitoring and information services, which are mainly used for the discovery of resources of interest. Large-scale...
: We consider disjunctive sequences, that is, infinite sequences (-words) having all finite words as infixes. It is shown that the set of all disjunctive sequences can be described...