This is an attempt to simplify and justify the notions of deterministicand randomized reductions, an attempt to derive these notions from (more or less) rst principles.
It has already been noted that the accurate prediction of societal responses requires the use of a formal model based on some social or cultural taxonomy. One such taxonomic candi...
Adnan Yazici, Frederick E. Petry, Curt Pendergraft
Delays on the Web are a persistent and highly publicized problem. Long delays have been shown to reduce information search, but less is known about the impact of more modest
The fat-tree is one of the topologies most widely used to build high-performance parallel computers. However, they are expensive and difficult to build. In this paper we propose t...
The work on prototypes in ontologies pioneered by Rosch [10] and elaborated by Lakoff [8] and Freund [3] is related to vagueness in the sense that the more remote an instance is fr...