In 1990 J-L. Krivine introduced the notion of storage operators. They are -terms which simulate call-by-value in the call-by-name strategy and they can be used in order to modeliz...
Data Stream Management Systems (DSMSs) must support optimized execution scheduling of multiple continuous queries on massive, and frequently bursty, data streams. Previous approac...
In this paper we propose an agent-based model of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) which extends seamlessly from concurrent single-host to distributed multi-host installations. Since ...
The term usability is ubiquitous in human-computer interaction, so much so that it is commonly used without definition. Rather than one established meaning of usability, there are,...
In the recent years, photo context metadata (e.g., date, GPS coordinates) have been proved to be useful in the management of personal photos. However, these metadata are still poo...