Existing content-based publish/subscribe systems are designed assuming that all matching publications are equally relevant to a subscription. As we cannot know in advance the dist...
Kresimir Pripuzic, Ivana Podnar Zarko, Karl Aberer
In a sampling problem, we are given an input x {0, 1} n , and asked to sample approximately from a probability distribution Dx over poly (n)-bit strings. In a search problem, we ...
Failure models characterise the expected component failures in fault-tolerant computing. In the context of distributed systems, a failure model usually consists of two parts: a fu...
Timo Warns, Felix C. Freiling, Wilhelm Hasselbring
The road network is one of the most important types of information on raster maps. In particular, the set of road intersection templates, which consists of the road intersection p...
This paper considers the design of agent strategies for deciding whether to help other members of a group with whom an agent is engaged in a collaborative activity. Three characte...