The availability of object middleware, such as CORBA, is rapidly being accepted as a means for cost effective and fast development for a wide range of distributed applications. Dis...
Maarten Wegdam, Dirk-Jaap Plas, Aart van Halteren,...
Abstract. We describe and model a new aspect in the design of distributed information systems. We build upon a previously described problem on the microlevel, which asks how quickl...
The concept of distance rationalizability allows one to define new voting rules or "rationalize" existing ones via a consensus class of elections and a distance. A conse...
Edith Elkind, Piotr Faliszewski, Arkadii M. Slinko
This paper studies an extension of the k-median problem where we are given a metric space (V, d) and not just one but m client sets {Si V }m i=1, and the goal is to open k facili...
Barbara M. Anthony, Vineet Goyal, Anupam Gupta, Vi...
The inference of consensus from a set of evolutionary trees is a fundamental problem in a number of fields such as biology and historical linguistics, and many models for inferrin...