The GRID and MAS (Multi-Agent Systems) communities believe in the potential of GRID and MAS to enhance each other as these models have developed significant complementarities. Thu...
Error-correcting codes and matroids have been widely used in the study of ordinary secret sharing schemes. In this paper, the connections between codes, matroids, and a special cla...
Ronald Cramer, Vanesa Daza, Ignacio Gracia, Jorge ...
The server's storage I/O and network I/O bandwidths are the main bottleneck of VoD service. Multicast offers an efficient means of distributing a video program to multiple cl...
Generating query-answering plans for data integration systems requires to translate a user query, formulated in terms of a mediated schema, to a query that uses relations that are...
Oliver M. Duschka, Michael R. Genesereth, Alon Y. ...
Abstract--This paper contains a modern vision of the parallelization techniques used for evolutionary algorithms (EAs). The work is motivated by two fundamental facts: first, the d...