In this paper we explore some of the connections between cooperative game theory and the utility maximization framework for routing and flow control in networks. Central to both a...
Unlike numerical preferences, preferences on attribute values do not show an inherent total order, but skyline computation has to rely on partial orderings explicitly stated by th...
Internet service providers (ISPs) depend on one another to provide global network services. However, the profit-seeking nature of the ISPs leads to selfish behaviors that result i...
Richard T. B. Ma, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C. S. Lui, V...
Many of standard practical techniques of solving constraint satisfaction problems use various decomposition methods to represent a problem as a combination of smaller ones. We stu...
— Imputation of missing data is important in many areas, such as reducing non-response bias in surveys and maintaining medical documentation. Nearest neighbour (NN) imputation al...