Abstract In general, avatar-based communication has a merit that it can represent non-verbal information. The simplest way of representing the non-verbal information is to capture ...
1 The problem of sorting an intransitive total ordered set, a generalization of regular sorting, is considered. This generalized sorting is based on the fact that there exists a s...
The application of information retrieval techniques in interactive environments requires systems capable of efficiently processing vague queries. To reach reasonable response tim...
In this paper we survey known results on algorithms, data structures, and some applications of random sampling from databases. We first discuss various reasons for sampling from d...
We consider rule sets for internet packet routing and filtering, where each rule consists of a range of source addresses, a range of destination addresses, a priority, and an acti...