This paper describes a general scheme to convert sequential ant-based algorithms into parallel shared memory algorithms. The scheme is applied to an ant-based algorithm for the ma...
Thang Nguyen Bui, ThanhVu H. Nguyen, Joseph R. Riz...
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL), launched in December 2002, is emerging as a center of innovation in digital libraries as applied to education. As a part of this exten...
Byron Marshall, Yiwen Zhang, Hsinchun Chen, Ann M....
Abstract. Participants in e-commerce and other forms of online collaborations tend to be selfish and rational, and therefore game theory has been recognized as particularly relevan...
Mikhail J. Atallah, Marina Blanton, Keith B. Frikk...
One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...