To meet users’ growing needs for accessing pre-existing heterogeneous databases, a multidatabase system (MDBS) integrating multiple databases has attracted many researchers recen...
Typical tag recommendation systems for photos shared on social networks such as Flickr, use visual content analysis, collaborative filtering or personalization strategies to prod...
Neela Sawant, Ritendra Datta, Jia Li, James Ze Wan...
We consider the following distributed optimization problem: three agents i = 1, 2, 3 are each presented with a load drawn independently from the same known prior distribution. Then...
Abstract— The localization problem is to determine an assignment of coordinates to nodes in a wireless ad-hoc or sensor network that is consistent with measured pairwise node dis...
Nissanka B. Priyantha, Hari Balakrishnan, Erik D. ...
One common characterization of how simple hill-climbing optimization methods can fail is that they become trapped in local optima - a state where no small modi cation of the curren...