One of the issues of Artificial Intelligence is the transfer of the knowledge conveyed by Natural Language into formalisms that a computer can interpret. In the Natural Language P...
Conventional operators for data retrieval are either based on exact matching or on total order relationship among elements. Neither of them is appropriate to manage complex data, s...
The Frequency Assignment Problem (FAP) is one of the key issues in the design of GSM networks (Global System for Mobile communications), and will remain important in the foreseeab...
In a computational grid environment, a common practice is try to allocate an entire parallel job onto a single participating site. Sometimes a parallel job, upon its submission, ca...
Protecting confidentiality of data has become increasingly important for computing systems. Information-flow techniques have been developed over the years to achieve that purpos...