Implementations of map-reduce are being used to perform many operations on very large data. We examine strategies for joining several relations in the map-reduce environment. Our ...
Semantic integration in the hidden Web is an emerging area of research where traditional assumptions do not always hold. Frequent changes, conflicts and the sheer size of the hid...
Increasingly messaging infrastructures are being used to support the communication requirements of a wide variety of clients, services, and proxies thereto. Typically, for various...
This paper proposes an improved free-roaming mobile agent security protocol. The scheme uses "one hop backwards and two hops forwards" chain relation as the protocol cor...
Darren Xu, Lein Harn, Mayur Narasimhan, Junzhou Lu...
— This paper presents a new reinforcement learning algorithm for accelerating acquisition of new skills by real mobile robots, without requiring simulation. It speeds up Q-learni...