We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
We study the times to grow structures within the tile self-assembly model proposed by Winfree, and the possible shapes that can be achieved. Our earlier work was confined to the g...
Yuliy M. Baryshnikov, Edward G. Coffman Jr., Boons...
In this paper we consider the functionality that a rights expression language (REL) should provide within a digital rights management (DRM) environment. We begin by noting the dea...
Pramod A. Jamkhedkar, Gregory L. Heileman, Iv&aacu...
In high-tech businesses ranging from Internet service providers to e-commerce websites and music stores like Apple iTunes, there is considerable potential for collecting personal ...
Wire routing in a VLSI chip often requires minimization of wire-length as well as the number of intersections among multiple nets. Such an optimization problem is computationally ...
Rajeev Kumar, Pramod Kumar Singh, Bhargab B. Bhatt...