The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
We propose a treatment of `extraposition' which allows items to be assimilated directly even when they appear far from their canonical positions. This treatment supports anal...
With the proliferation of the new multi-core personal computers, and the explosion of the usage of highly concurrent machine configuration, concurrent code moves from being writt...
— Multimedia applications require high bandwidth in order to assure certain level of Quality of Service (QoS). It is well known that the characteristics of the traffic for multim...
A fairly common modern setting entails users, each in possession of a personal wireless device, wanting to communicate securely, via their devices. If these users (and their devic...