Decision support applications involve complex queries on very large databases. Since response times should be small, query optimization is critical. Users typically view the data ...
Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ull...
We give a practical and provably good Monte Carlo algorithm for approximating center points. Let P be a set of n points in IRd . A point c ∈ IRd is a β-center point of P if eve...
Kenneth L. Clarkson, David Eppstein, Gary L. Mille...
Abstract. Publish-subscribe systems present the state of the art in information dissemination to multiple users. Such systems have evolved from simple topic-based to the current XM...
Roger Moussalli, Mariam Salloum, Walid A. Najjar, ...
This paper addresses distributed task allocation in complex scenarios modeled using the distributed constraint optimization problem (DCOP) formalism. We propose and evaluate a nov...
Paulo Roberto Ferreira Jr., Felipe S. Boffo, Ana L...
Abstract. Adaptation of devices and applications based on contextual information has a great potential to enhance usability and mitigate the increasing complexity of mobile devices...
Keshu Zhang, Haifeng Li, Kari Torkkola, Mike Gardn...