The need for sharing is well known in a large number of distributed collaborative applications. These applications are difficult to develop for wide area (possibly mobile) networ...
This paper examines the explicit communication characteristics of several sophisticated scientific applications, which, by themselves, constitute a representative suite of publicl...
The Portfolio Optimization problem consists of the selection of a group of assets to a long-term fund in order to minimize the risk and maximize the return of the investment. This...
Many applications, that need mass storage, manipulate data sets with KB – MB size objects. In contrast, mass storage devices work most efficiently for the storage and transfer ...
This paper presents two metrics for the Nearest Neighbor Classifier that share the property of being adapted, i.e. learned, on a set of data. Both metrics can be used for similari...