Priority queueing systems come natural when customers with diversified delay requirements have to wait to get service. The customers that cannot tolerate but small delays get serv...
Many algorithms for independent component analysis (ICA) and blind source separation (BSS) can be considered particular instances of a criterion based on the sum of two terms: C(Y...
The yolk, defined by McKelvey as the smallest ball intersecting all median hyperplanes, is a key concept in the Euclidean spatial model of voting. Koehler conjectured that the yo...
Data dissemination in sensor networks requires four components: resource discovery, route establishment, packet forwarding, and route maintenance. Resource discovery can be the mos...
In many applications, we find large video collections from different genres where the user is often only interested in one or two specific video genres. So, when users are queryin...