—In online social networks (OSNs), user connections can be represented as a network. The network formed has distinct properties that distinguish it from other network topologies....
Ankush Garg, Prantik Bhattacharyya, Charles U. Mar...
—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
Social networks and collaborative tagging systems are rapidly gaining popularity as primary means for sorting and sharing data: users tag their bookmarks in order to simplify infor...
Abstract Competition and cooperation can boost the performance of a combinatorial search process. Both can be implemented with a portfolio of algorithms which run in parallel, give...
Achieving peak performance from library subroutines usually requires extensive, machine-dependent tuning by hand. Automatic tuning systems have emerged in response, and they typic...