Today XML is an essential technology for knowledge management within enterprises and dissemination of data over the Web. Therefore the efficient evaluation of XML queries has been ...
Task-PIOA is a modeling framework for distributed systems with both probabilistic and nondeterministic behaviors. It is suitable for cryptographic applications because its task-bas...
Ran Canetti, Ling Cheung, Dilsun Kirli Kaynar, Nan...
The problem of interest is covering a given point set with homothetic copies of several convex containers C1,...,Ck, while the objective is to minimize the maximum over the dilatat...
We study a generative model in which hidden causes combine competitively to produce observations. Multiple active causes combine to determine the value of an observed variable thr...
An alphabetic binary tree formulation applies to problems in which an outcome needs to be determined via alphabetically ordered search prior to the termination of some window of o...