Previous research has shown that evolutionary systems not only try to develop solutions that satisfy a fitness requirement, but indirectly attempt to develop genetically robust so...
The XML Wrapper is a new feature of the federated database capabilities of DB2/UDB v8. It enables users and applications to issue SQL queries against XML data from a variety of so...
Abstract—Biometric template protection is one of the most important issues in deploying a practical biometric system. To tackle this problem, many algorithms, that do not store t...
Decentralized Markov Decision Processes are a powerful general model of decentralized, cooperative multi-agent problem solving. The high complexity of the general problem leads to...
Abstract. We had claimed that arc-consistency is preserved in a constraint reformulation relying on functional dependencies (Theorem 2 of [2]). We show that the statement of this t...