This paper is on the Consensus problem, in the context of asynchronous distributed systems made of n processes, at most f of them may crash. A family of failure detector classes s...
This paper studies the problem of extracting data from a Web page that contains several structured data records. The objective is to segment these data records, extract data items...
A representative market study was carried out to determine the penetration of electronic business in Swiss companies. A random sample was used in which companies were classified b...
Using Asimov's "Bicentennial Man" as a springboard, a number of metaethical issues concerning the emerging field of Machine Ethics are discussed. Although the ultim...
In this paper, we propose a decentralized method for maximizing lifetime of data collection wireless sensor networks (WSNs) by making minimal number of nodes operate and putting ot...