In many settings, a group of agents must come to a joint decision on multiple issues. In practice, this is often done by voting on the issues in sequence. In this paper, we model ...
Complex applications in many areas, including scientific computations and business-related web services, are created from collections of components to form workflows. In many case...
Generating multimedia streams, such as in a netradio, is a task which is complex and difficult to adapt to every users’ needs. We introduce a novel approach in order to achieve i...
Many applications require a computer representation of 2D shape, usually described by a set of 2D points. The challenge of this representation is that it must not only capture the...
We consider an environment where one or more servers carry databases that are of interest to a community of clients. The clients are only intermittently connected to the server fo...
Sameer Mahajan, Michael J. Donahoo, Shamkant B. Na...