Constrictions on a surface are defined as simple closed curves whose length is locally minimal. In particular, constrictions are periodic geodesics. We use constrictions in order...
Online auctions are increasingly being used as a medium to procure goods and services. As the number of auction sites increases, however, consumers will inevitably want to track a...
We propose a method of using clustering techniques to partition a set of orders. We define the term order as a sequence of objects that are sorted according to some property, such...
It is common to use domain specific terminology – attributes – to describe the visual appearance of objects. In order to scale the use of these describable visual attributes t...
The per-method access control lists of standard middleware technologies allow only simple forms of access control to be expressed and enforced. Research systems based on capabilit...