In high-dimensional and complex metric spaces, determining the nearest neighbor (NN) of a query object ? can be a very expensive task, because of the poor partitioning operated by...
In this paper, we propose a practical scheme, called Non-Binary Joint Network-Channel Decoding (NB-JNCD) for reliable communication in wireless networks. It seamlessly couples cha...
Zheng Guo, Jie Huang, Bing Wang, Jun-Hong Cui, She...
In order to optimize their revenues and profits, an increasing number of businesses organize their business activities in terms of business processes. Typically, they automate imp...
Marko Vrhovnik, Holger Schwarz, Oliver Suhre, Bern...
In the rank join problem, we are given a set of relations and a scoring function, and the goal is to return the join results with the top K scores. It is often the case in practic...
In order for pervasive computing to realize its full potential, pervasive applications have to be able to operate without support from fixed communication infrastructure at least ...