—We propose a method to improve traditional character-based PPM text compression algorithms. Consider a text file as a sequence of alternating words and non-words, the basic ide...
A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, current SLAs offered by cloud infrastructure providers do ...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...
In this paper we describe a new efficient (in fact optimal) data structure for the top-K color problem. Each element of an array A is assigned a color c with priority p(c). For a ...
In various applications, the effect of errors in gradient-based iterations is of particular importance when seeking saddle points of the Lagrangian function associated with constra...
We consider the determinism checking of XML Schema content models, as required by the W3C Recommendation. We argue that currently applied solutions have flaws and make processors...