One fundamental task in near-neighbor search as well as other similarity matching efforts is to find a distance function that can efficiently quantify the similarity between two o...
An important application of dynamically and partially reconfigurable computing platforms is in dynamic task allocation and execution. On-line synthesis, on-line placement and on-l...
Contracts are behavioural descriptions of Web services. We devise a theory of contracts that formalises the compatibility of a client to a service, and the safe replacement of a s...
The problem of answering queries using views is to find efficient methods of answering a query using a set of previously materialized views over the database, rather than accessin...
Distributed weighted fair scheduling schemes for QoS support in wireless networks have not yet become standard. In this paper we propose an Admission Control and Dynamic Bandwidth...