This paper reports our first set of results on managing uncertainty in data integration. We posit that data-integration systems need to handle uncertainty at three levels, and do...
The (Euclidean) Vehicle Routing Allocation Problem (VRAP) is a generalization of Euclidean TSP. We do not require that all points lie on the salesman tour. However, points that do ...
This paper studies the system parameters that affect the total cost of managing the multicast group on a router. A Petri net model is first proposed to describe the states and tra...
Yongjun Li, Wenhui Zhou, James Zijun Wang, Deyu Qi
— Most biomedical research databases contain considerable amounts of time-oriented data. However, temporal knowledge about the contextual meaning of such data is not usually repr...
An eXtensible Markup Language (XML) based data model for the Global Geodynamics Project (GGP) has been previously developed. Mindful of the need to incorporate metadata into the d...