Selecting and presenting content culled from multiple heterogeneous and physically distributed sources is a challenging task. The exponential growth of the web data in modern time...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
Extracting information from data, often also called data analysis, is an important scienti c task. Statistical approaches, which use methods from probability theory and numerical a...
Bernd Fischer 0002, Johann Schumann, Thomas Pressb...
Rapid increases in computing and communication performance are exacerbating the long-standing problem of performance-limited input/output. Indeed, for many otherwise scalable para...
Phyllis Crandall, Ruth A. Aydt, Andrew A. Chien, D...
Several recent trends have changed the usage and users of schemas beyond those of a database administrator’s tool for describing database contents. Distribution of computing pow...