When multiple ontologies are used within one application system, aligning the ontologies is a prerequisite for interoperability and unhampered semantic navigation and search. Vario...
Object identification is a crucial step in most information systems. Nowadays, we have many different ways to identify entities such as surrogates, keys and object identifiers. Ho...
Flash solid state drives (SSDs) provide an attractive alternative to traditional magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs) for DBMS applications. Naturally there is substantial interest in...
We consider the case of sparse mobile sensors deployed to implement missions in challenging environments. This paper explores a notion of tour networks that is well suited to circ...
We consider a variant of the classic multi-armed bandit problem (MAB), which we call FEEDBACK MAB, where the reward obtained by playing each of n independent arms varies according...