A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Link Analysis has shown great potential in improving the performance of web search. PageRank and HITS are two of the most popular algorithms. Most of the existing link analysis al...
Inspired originally by the Learnable Evolution Model(LEM) [5], we investigate LEM(ID3), a hybrid of evolutionary search with ID3 decision tree learning. LEM(ID3) involves interleav...
For several decades there has been a debate in the computing sciences about the relative roles of design and empirical research, and about the contribution of design and research ...
There has been much interest in testing from finite state machines (FSMs) as a result of their suitability for modelling or specifying state-based systems. Where there are multip...