: Whenever transformation of data is used to bridge the gap of different data formats, and a query is given in the destination format, query reformulation can speed up the transfor...
Peer-to-Peer computing is a model consisting of cooperating distributed processing units terms peers. Characteristics of this computing model include lack of centralized control an...
In order for one agent to meet its goals, it will often need to influence another to act on its behalf, particularly in a society in which agents have heterogenous sets of abilitie...
Dionysis Kalofonos, Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicho...
We present the Priority R-tree, or PR-tree, which is the first R-tree variant that always answers a window query using O((N/B)1-1/d + T/B) I/Os, where N is the number of ddimensio...
Lars Arge, Mark de Berg, Herman J. Haverkort, Ke Y...
The stochastic discrimination (SD) theory considers learning as building models of uniform coverage over data distributions. Despite successful trials of the derived SD method in s...