The free-rider phenomenon which impedes the marketing of information goods is conventionally countered by copyright protection regulations and technology. Alternative ways to mark...
: In the light of high profile governmental and international efforts to realise the knowledge society, I review the arguments made for and against it from a technology standpoint....
: Multimedia applications nowadays are becoming prevalent. In the past the relational database model was generalized to the multimedia database model. More recently the relational ...
Shi-Kuo Chang, Lei Zhao, Shenoda Guirguis, Rohit K...
Models for sequential decision making under uncertainty (e.g., Markov decision processes,or MDPs) have beenstudied in operations research for decades. The recent incorporation of ...
Abstract. We present a simple and efficient distributed method for determining the transmission power assignment that maximises the lifetime of a data-gathering wireless sensor net...