Given a sequence of n real numbers and an integer k, 1 k 1 2 n(n − 1), the k maximum-sum segments problem is to locate the k segments whose sums are the k largest among all poss...
Currently, the interest in Ambient Intelligence (or AmI) has increased exponentially due to the widespread use of portable devices. Users demand more and more functionality from t...
The vision of pervasive or ubiquitous computing, conceived by Mark Weiser, foresees a world where computing is embedded in every day objects. Such objects interact with each other...
Abstract. The recent proliferation of Internet worms has raised questions about defensive measures. To date most techniques proposed are passive, in-so-far as they attempt to block...
In many classification and data-mining applications the user does not know a priori which distance measure is the most appropriate for the task at hand without examining the produ...