It has recently been shown that fair exchange, a security problem in distributed systems, can be reduced to a fault tolerance problem, namely a special form of distributed consensu...
Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Felix C...
The traditional statistical assumption for interpreting histograms and justifying approximate query processing methods based on them is that all elements in a bucket have the same...
Based on the renowned method of Bitton et al. (see [1]) we develop a concise but comprehensive analytical model for the well-known Binary Merge Sort, Bitonic Sort, Nested-Loop Join...
In this paper we propose a formalism for symbolic negotiation. We regard symbolic negotiation as cooperative problem solving (CPS), which is based on symbolic reasoning and is ext...
We refine and extend an earlier MDL denoising criterion for wavelet-based denoising. We start by showing that the denoising problem can be reformulated as a clustering problem, whe...