Approximating general distributions by phase-type (PH) distributions is a popular technique in stochastic analysis, since the Markovian property of PH distributions often allows a...
Software agents have become very popular in the last six or so years. They have been used successfully to filter information, match people with similar interests and automate repe...
This paper presents and evaluates the storage management and caching in PAST, a large-scale peer-to-peer persistent storage utility. PAST is based on a self-organizing, Internetba...
Many methods for XML processing have been proposed in the last few years. One popular approach is to process XML documents by using existing programming languages. Another popular...
Motivated by applications like elections, web-page ranking, revenue maximization etc., we consider the question of inferring popular rankings using constrained data. More specific...