Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags that add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid quer...
Outliers are very common in the environmental data monitored by a sensor network consisting of many inexpensive, low fidelity, and frequently failed sensors. The limited battery ...
Parallel file subsystems in today’s high-performance computers adopt many I/O optimization strategies that were designed for distributed systems. These strategies, for instance...
Wei-keng Liao, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. Choudhary, Le...
In this paper, we propose and develop a novel approach to the problem of optimally managing the tax, and more generally debt, collections processes at financial institutions. Our...
Naoki Abe, Prem Melville, Cezar Pendus, Chandan K....
— In today’s service market the provisioning of high quality services has become a critical issue for providers as the business success of their customers is often based on the...