Open and distance Learning (ODL) gives learners freedom of time, place and pace of study, putting learner self-direction centre-stage. However, increased responsibility should not...
Top-k queries on large multi-attribute data sets are fundamental operations in information retrieval and ranking applications. In this paper, we initiate research on the anytime b...
Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Ni...
The psycholinguistic theory of communication accommodation accounts for the general observation that participants in conversations tend to converge to one another’s communicativ...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Michael Gamon, S...
Network calculus offers powerful tools to analyze the performances in communication networks, in particular to obtain deterministic bounds. This theory is based on a strong mathema...
Bloat is a common problem with Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) that use variable length representation. By creating unnecessarily large individuals it results in longer EA runtimes ...
Jeffrey K. Bassett, Mark Coletti, Kenneth A. De Jo...