Many data-management applications require integrating data from a variety of sources, where different sources may refer to the same real-world entity in different ways and some ma...
In a network environments supporting mobile entities (called robots or agents), a black hole is harmful site that destroys any incoming entity without leaving any visible trace. Th...
Balasingham Balamohan, Paola Flocchini, Ali Miri, ...
We consider the problem of broadcasting a large message in a large scale distributed platform. The message must be sent from a source node, with the help of the receiving peers whi...
Current evaluation functions for heuristic planning are expensive to compute. In numerous planning problems these functions provide good guidance to the solution, so they are wort...
A key challenge in recommender system research is how to effectively profile new users, a problem generally known as cold-start recommendation. Recently the idea of progressivel...