concerns, abstraction (particularly hierarchical abstraction), simplicity, and restricted visibility (locality of information). The overall goal behind these principles was stated ...
The proliferation of XML as a standard for data representation and exchange in diverse, next-generation Web applications has created an emphatic need for effective XML data-integr...
Wenfei Fan, Minos N. Garofalakis, Ming Xiong, Xibe...
Abstract. We present fast distributed algorithms for coloring and (connected) dominating set construction in wireless ad hoc networks. We present our algorithms in the context of U...
Abstract. Streaming media workloads have a number of desirable properties that make them good candidates for caching via proxy systems. The content does not get modified, and acce...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...