Abstract. In this paper, we extend monotone monomials as large itemsets in association rule mining to monotone DNF formulas. First, we introduce not only the minimum support but al...
Auctions have become popular in conducting trade negotiations on the Internet. The design of new auction formats and other negotiation protocols has become an important topic for r...
Although evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are widely used in practical optimization, their theoretical analysis is still in its infancy. Up to now results on the (expected) runtime ar...
—In this paper we propose a clustering and routing scheme for wireless sensor networks based on a self-organizing approach. The aim of this approach is for nodes to perform an in...
Over the past decade the Internet has evolved into the largest public community in the world. It provides a wealth of data content and services in almost every field of science, t...