Given a service request such as scheduling an appointment or purchasing a product, it is possible that the invocation of the service results in too many solutions that all satisfy ...
Abstract. Ambient intelligence (AmI) is a promising paradigm for humancentred interaction based on mobile and context-aware computing, natural interfaces and collaborative work. AM...
Sequential pattern mining aims to find frequent patterns (guarded by a minimum support) in a database of sequences. As the support decreases the number of sequential patterns will...
Routing in unstructured peer-to-peer systems relies either on broadcasting (also called flooding) or on routing indices. An approach using routing indices is only scalable if the...
We study the problem of designing truthful algorithms for scheduling a set of tasks, each one owned by a selfish agent, to a set of parallel (identical or unrelated) machines in or...