The Web can be naturally modeled as a directed graph, consisting of a set of abstract nodes (the pages) joined by directional edges (the hyperlinks). Hyperlinks encode a considerab...
—Secret sharing and erasure coding-based approaches have been used in distributed storage systems to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical informati...
Manghui Tu, Peng Li, I-Ling Yen, Bhavani M. Thurai...
User generated content is extremely valuable for mining market intelligence because it is unsolicited. We study the problem of analyzing users' sentiment and opinion in their...
We study the expected topological properties of ˇCech and Vietoris-Rips complexes built on random points in Rd . We find higher dimensional analogues of known results for connect...
In this paper, we investigate limiting behavior of linear dynamic systems driven by random stochastic matrices. We introduce and study the new concepts of partial ergodicity and 1-...