As a large quantity of information is presented in XML format on the Web, there are increasing demands for XML security. Until now, research on XML security has been focused on th...
Discovering association rules that identify relationships among sets of items is an important problem in data mining. Finding frequent item sets is computationally the most expens...
This is foremost a methodological contribution. It focuses on the foundation of anticipation and the pertinent implications that anticipation has on learning (theory and experiment...
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
The bandwidth minimization problem has a long history and a number of practical applications. In this paper we introduce a natural extension of bandwidth to partially ordered layo...