In today's distributed computing environments, users are makingincreasing demands on the systems, networks, and applications they use. Users are coming to expect performance,...
Michael Katchabaw, Stephen L. Howard, Andrew D. Ma...
We consider the problem of solving a nonhomogeneous infinite horizon Markov Decision Process (MDP) problem in the general case of potentially multiple optimal first period polic...
Torpong Cheevaprawatdomrong, Irwin E. Schochetman,...
We discover communities from social network data, and analyze the community evolution. These communities are inherent characteristics of human interaction in online social network...
Yu-Ru Lin, Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Hari Sundaram, B...
Sensitive data are increasingly available on-line through the Web and other distributed protocols. This heightens the need to carefully control access to data. Control means not o...
Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Leo A. Meyero...
Nowadays, as there is an increasing need to integrate the DBMS (for structured data) with Information Retrieval (IR) features (for unstructured data), DB-IR integration becomes one...