— To optimize makespan and reliability for workflow applications, most existing works use list heuristics rather than genetic algorithms (GAs) which can usually give better solut...
Sensor networks can be viewed as large distributed databases, and SQL-like high-level declarative languages can be used for data and information retrieval. Energy constraints make ...
Abstract. A new approach is proposed to estimate the spatial distribution of shear modulus of tissues in-vivo. An image sequence is acquired using a standard medical ultrasound sca...
We consider the problem of "progressively" joining relations whose records are continuously retrieved from remote sources through an unstable network that may incur temp...
Yufei Tao, Man Lung Yiu, Dimitris Papadias, Marios...
The installation of software packages depends on the correct resolution of dependencies and conflicts between packages. This problem is NP-complete and, as expected, is a hard ta...