High quality placement results are always produced at the cost of significant runtimes. In this paper, we study the trade-off between the overall quality and the runtime for stand...
We consider two problems related to communication between geographically distributed family members. First, we examine the problem of supporting peripheral awareness, in order to i...
—Publish/Subscribe systems have been extensively studied in the context of distributed information-based systems, and have proven scalable in information-dissemination for many d...
Computational diagnosis of cancer is a classification problem, and it has two special requirements on a learning algorithm: perfect accuracy and small number of features used in t...
Programming languages provide various mechanisms to support information hiding. One problem with information hiding, however, is that providing a stable interface behind which to ...