In many database applications involving string data, it is common to have near neighbor queries (asking for strings that are similar to a query string) or nearest neighbor queries...
Many real-world problems are over-constrained and require search techniques adapted to optimising cost functions rather than searching for consistency. This makes the MAX-SAT probl...
—High node mobility and transient connectivity in Vehicular Ad Hoc NETworks have introduced numerous challenges in the design of efficient communication protocols for these netwo...
System execution modeling (SEM) tools provide an effective means to evaluate the quality of service (QoS) of enterprise distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. SEM tools...
James H. Hill, Douglas C. Schmidt, Adam A. Porter,...
: As more third-party software components are available in the commercial market, more people begin to use the component-based software engineering approach to developing component...