Peer-assisted streaming is a promising way for service providers to offer high-quality IPTV to consumers at reasonable cost. In peerassisted streaming, the peers exchange video ch...
Shao Liu, Rui Zhang-Shen, Wenjie Jiang, Jennifer R...
Because of privacy concerns, agents may not want to reveal information that could be of use in problem solving. As a result, there are potentially important tradeoffs between main...
Mediator systems integrate distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous data sources, but their e ective use requires the solution of hard query optimization problems. This is usuall...
Many algorithms for independent component analysis (ICA) and blind source separation (BSS) can be considered particular instances of a criterion based on the sum of two terms: C(Y...
It was proved few years ago that classes of Boolean functions definable by means of functional equations [9], or equivalently, by means of relational constraints [16], coincide wit...