Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL require a sorted stream of tuples for efficient processing. Therefore, processing complex relational queries relies on efficient a...
The core of a game v on N, which is the set of additive games dominating v such that (N) = v(N), is a central notion in cooperative game theory, decision making and in combinator...
This paper addresses the problem of topic distillation on the World Wide Web, namely, given a typical user query to find quality documents related to the query topic. Connectivity...
We introduce a stricter Web community definition to overcome boundary ambiguity of a Web community defined by Flake, Lawrence and Giles [2], and consider the problem of finding co...
The best performing algorithms for a particular oversubscribed scheduling application, Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) scheduling, appear to have little in common. Yet...
Laura Barbulescu, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitle...