Abstract— We describe a grid-based approach for enterprisescale data mining that leverages database technology for I/O parallelism, and on-demand compute servers for compute para...
An important part of our information-gathering behavior has always been to find out what other people think. With the growing availability and popularity of opinion-rich resource...
In this article, we consider the computational aspects of deciding whether a conditional independence statement t is implied by a list of conditional independence statements L usi...
The characteristics of mobile environments, with the possibility of frequent disconnections and fluctuating bandwidth, have forced a rethink of traditional middleware. In particula...
In goal-oriented requirements engineering (GORE), one usually proceeds from a goal analysis to a requirements specification, usually of IT systems. In contrast, we consider the us...