Hashing is one of the fundamental techniques used to implement query processing operators such as grouping, aggregation and join. This paper studies the interaction between modern...
Agent negotiation over multiple issues is often seen as the process of searching for a solution in a complex and large space. Depending on the negotiation mechanism such search sp...
Kuo-Ming Chao, Muhammad Younas, Rachid Anane, Chen...
Domain-specific internet portals are growing in popularity because they gather content from the Web and organize it for easy access, retrieval and search. For example, www.campsear...
Andrew McCallum, Kamal Nigam, Jason Rennie, Kristi...
: We address the question of how to communicate among distributed processes values such as real numbers, continuous functions and geometrical solids with arbitrary precision, yet e...
An efficient method for rate control is illustrated for joint source-channel rate selection and for encoding under multiple leaky bucket buffer constraints. This method shows adva...