Keyword search is widely recognized as a convenient way to retrieve information from XML data. In order to precisely meet users' search concerns, we study how to effectively r...
Zhifeng Bao, Jiaheng Lu, Tok Wang Ling, Liang Xu, ...
Traditional negotiation, conducted face-to-face and via mail or telephone, is often difficult to manage, prone to misunderstanding, and time consuming. Automated negotiation promis...
Cache-based, general purpose CPUs perform at a small fraction of their maximum floating point performance when executing memory-intensive simulations, such as those required for sp...
We address the problem of efficiently gathering correlated data from a wireless sensor network, with the aim of designing algorithms with provable optimality guarantees, and unders...
People-centric urban sensing is a new paradigm gaining popularity. A main obstacle to its widespread deployment and adoption are the privacy concerns of participating individuals. ...