Joins are essential for many data analysis tasks, but are not supported directly by the MapReduce paradigm. While there has been progress on equi-joins, implementation of join alg...
In this paper, we consider a non-saturated IEEE 802.11 based wireless network. We use a three-way fixed point to model the node behavior with Bernoulli packet arrivals and determi...
This paper is to study the information system development (ISD) by looking into fifty-six cases from the perspectives of power development stage and organizational politics. We in...
We introduce streaming data string transducers that map input data strings to output data strings in a single left-to-right pass in linear time. Data strings are (unbounded) seque...
Diverse forms of the concept of opposition are already existent in philosophy, linguistics, psychology and physics. The interplay between entities and opposite entities is apparent...