In the context of the current financial crisis, when more companies are facing bankruptcy or insolvency, the paper aims to find methods to identify distressed firms by using finan...
Service discovery is an important and necessary component of ad hoc networks. To fit within the context of such networks, a post-query model with several service discovery strateg...
— In this paper, we present an analytical analysis of the convergence of raptor codes under joint decoding over the binary input additive white noise channel (BIAWGNC), and deriv...
The structure of open nets, like the Internet, is highly dynamic, as the topology of component networks continuously evolves. In this context, node connectivity is a key aspect an...
Nowadays maintenance of database management systems (DBMSs) often requires offline operations for enhancement of functionality or security updates. This hampers the availability of...
Florian Irmert, Thomas Fischer, Frank Lauterwald, ...