The divide-and-conquer principle is a majoi paradigm of algorithms design. Corresponding cost functions satisfy recurrences that directly reflect the decomposition mechanism used i...
Many proposed protocols for replicated databases consider centralized control of each transaction so that given a transaction, some site will monitor the remote data access and tr...
Abstract. We propose an algorithm for Sparse Bayesian Classification for multi-class problems using Automatic Relevance Determination(ARD). Unlike other approaches which treat mult...
Auditing a web site’s content is an arduous task. For any given page on a web server, system administrators are often ill-equipped to determine who created the document, why itâ...
Coordination within decentralized agent groups frequently requires reaching global consensus, but typical hierarchical approaches to reaching such decisions can be complex, slow, ...