We prove and extend a conjecture of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (KKT) on the spread of influence in social networks. A social network can be represented by a directed graph where...
Twig queries represent the building blocks of declarative query languages over XML data. A twig query describes a complex traversal of the document graph and generates a set of el...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....
One of the fundamental trade-offs in compact routing schemes is between the space used to store the routing table on each node and the stretch factor of the routing scheme – th...
A well-designed fitness function is essential to the effectiveness and efficiency of evolutionary testing. Fitness function design has been researched extensively. For fitness ...
Yan Wang, Zhiwen Bai, Miao Zhang, Wen Du, Ying Qin...
Recent statistical performance surveys of search algorithms in difficult combinatorial problems have demonstrated the benefits of randomising and restarting the search procedure. ...