We consider the problem of scheduling tasks with unpredictable service times on distinct processing nodes so as to meet a real-time deadline, given that all communication among no...
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
Distributed virtual environments allow users at di erent geographical locations to share and interact within a common virtual environment via a local network or through the Intern...
Jimmy H. P. Chim, Rynson W. H. Lau, Antonio Si, Ho...
We investigate the following question. Do populations of evolving agents adapt only to their recent environment or do general adaptive features appear over time? We find statistica...
Emerging electronic commerce services that use public-key cryptography on a mass-market scale require sophisticated mechanisms for managing trust. For example, any service that rec...