Abstract-Dynamic routing protocols such as RIP and OSPF essentially implement distributed algorithms for solving the Shortest Paths Problem. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is cu...
Timothy Griffin, F. Bruce Shepherd, Gordon T. Wilf...
We consider a communication network with fixed routing that can accommodate multiple service classes, differing in bandwidth requirements, demand pattern, call duration, and routin...
The existing telecommunications infrastructure in most of the world is adequate to deliver voice and text applications, but demand for broadband services such as streaming video an...
Yann d'Halluin, Peter A. Forsyth, Kenneth R. Vetza...
The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
With the rapid growth of XML-document traffic on the Internet, scalable content-based dissemination of XML documents to a large, dynamic group of consumers has become an important...