Normalization as a way of producing good database designs is a well-understood topic. However, the same problem of distinguishing well-designed databases from poorly designed ones...
Nowadays, software evolution is a very hot topic. Many applications need to be updated or extended with new characteristics during their lifecycle. Software evolution is character...
—Characterizing user churn has become an important topic in studying P2P networks, both in theoretical analysis and system design. Recent work [26] has shown that direct sampling...
In many settings there exists a set of potential participants, but the set of participants who are actually active in the system, and in particular their number, is unknown. This ...
We characterize the angular polyspectra, of arbitrary order, associated with isotropic fields defined on the sphere S2 = (x, y, z) : x2 + y2 + z2 = 1 . Our techniques rely heavi...