While commodity computing and graphics hardware has increased in capacity and dropped in cost, it is still quite difficult to make effective use of such systems for general-purpos...
E. Wes Bethel, Greg Humphreys, Brian E. Paul, J. D...
Abstract. The rooted delay-constrained minimum spanning tree problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem arising for example in the design of centralized broadcasting ...
The sequence mining problem consists in finding frequent sequential patterns in a database of time-stamped events. Several application domains require limiting the maximum tempor...
The definition and management of access rules (e.g., to control the access to business documents and business functions) is an important task within any enterprise information sy...
Electronic markets, distributed peer-to-peer applications and other forms of online collaboration are all based on mutual trust, which enables transacting peers to overcome the un...