In today's global marketplace, the information associated with a product is fast becoming a critical link in the supply chain. Especially in fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs...
In this paper we describe our participation in CLEF-IP 2009 (prior art search task). This was the first year of the task and we focused on how to build effectively a prior art quer...
Given an undirected graph with nonnegative costs on the edges, the routing cost of any of its spanning trees is the sum over all pairs of vertices of the cost of the path between t...
Bang Ye Wu, Giuseppe Lancia, Vineet Bafna, Kun-Mao...
Abstract. Today, there exist many algorithms and protocols for constructing agregation or dissemination trees for wireless sensor networks that are optimal (for different notions o...
Distributed allocation mechanisms rely on the agents' autonomous (and supposedly rational) behaviour: states evolve as a result of agents contracting deals and exchanging res...