For embedded systems quality requirements are equally if not even more important than functional requirements. The foundation for the fulfillment of these quality requirements ha...
An adaptive particle swarm optimization (APSO) that features better search efficiency than classical particle swarm optimization (PSO) is presented. More importantly, it can perfor...
A function on n variables is called a k-junta if it depends on at most k of its variables. In this article, we show that it is possible to test whether a function is a k-junta or ...
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
Trust negotiation is a process that establishes mutual trust by the exchange of digital credentials and/or guiding policies among entities who may have no pre-existing knowledge a...
Weifeng Chen, L. Clarke, James F. Kurose, Donald F...