Bids submitted in auctions are usually treated as enforceable commitments in most bidding and auction theory literature. In reality bidders often withdraw winning bids before the ...
I/O consolidation is a growing trend in production environments due to the increasing complexity in tuning and managing storage systems. A consequence of this trend is the need to...
Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Alma Riska,...
We describe a new class of utility-maximization scheduling problem with precedence constraints, the disconnected staged scheduling problem (DSSP). DSSP is a nonpreemptive multipro...
Eric Anderson, Dirk Beyer 0002, Kamalika Chaudhuri...
Histograms are used in many ways in conventional databases and in data stream processing for summarizing massive data distributions. Previous work on constructing histograms on da...
Abstract. Existing methods to text plagiarism analysis mainly base on “chunking”, a process of grouping a text into meaningful units each of which gets encoded by an integer nu...