Abstract— In order to efficiently use Grid resources, users or middlewares must use some network information, and in particular some knowledge of the platform network. As such kn...
—This paper provides a power-margin-based measure of the quality of computer-generated random variates having a distribution that derives from the multivariate Gaussian distribut...
An open problem for Distributed Information Retrieval systems (DIR) is how to represent large document repositories, also known as resources, both accurately and efficiently. Obt...
Since clustering is unsupervised and highly explorative, clustering validation (i.e. assessing the quality of clustering solutions) has been an important and long standing researc...