Local ratio is a well-known paradigm for designing approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. At a very high level, a local-ratio algorithm first decomposes ...
Role is a commonly used concept in software development, but a concept with divergent definitions. This paper discusses the characteristics of roles in software organizations, and...
This paper presents a novel method that effectively combines both control variates and importance sampling in a sequential Monte Carlo context. The radiance estimates computed dur...
Executive information systems (EIS) that are capable of accessing multiple data sources (both online and offline) for ondemand, ad hoc analysis are needed to support the changing ...
Purpose The discovery of the "right" ontology or ontology part is a central ingredient for effective ontology re-use. We present an approach for supporting a form of ada...