The RBAC metaphor is powerful in its ability to express access control policy in terms of the way in which administrators view organizations. The functionality of simple Role Base...
In [Dague, 1993], a formal system ROM(K) involving four relations has been defined to reason with relative orders of magnitude. In this paper, problems of introducing quantitative...
Holland's Schema Theorem is widely taken to be the foundation for explanations of the power of genetic algorithms (GAs). Yet some dissent has been expressed as to its implica...
Handling audio and video in a digital environment requires timely delivery of data. This paper describes the principles adopted in the design of the Pandora networked multi-media ...
abstraction heuristics, notably pattern-database and merge-and-shrink heuristics, are employed by some state-ofthe-art optimal heuristic-search planners. The major limitation of t...