The mortar technique turns out to be well adapted to handle mesh adaptivity in finite elements, since it allows for working with nonnecessarily compatible discretizations on the el...
Brittleness is a well-known problem in expert systems where a conclusion can be made, which human common sense would recognise as impossible e.g. that a male is pregnant. We have e...
Abstract-- Information theory provides a novel perspective on passive sonar performance analysis. This approach begins by partitioning the search space and then considers the probl...
Many location-based applications require constant monitoring of k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) queries over moving objects within a geographic area. Existing approaches to this problem...
We examine several online matching problems, with applications to Internet advertising reservation systems. Consider an edge-weighted bipartite graph G, with partite sets L, R. We...