Abstract. Most applications of competitive analysis have involved online problems where a candidate on-line algorithm must compete on some input sequence against an optimal o -line...
An increasing number of real-world entities is currently being connected to the Internet and the World Wide Web. We argue that this development is the precursor of a Web of Things...
The (neo-)evolutionary model of a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations focuses on the overlay of expectations, communications, and interactions that potentiall...
Capability passing processes model global applications in a way that decouples the global agreement aspects of protocols from the details of how the communications are actually ma...
: This paper addresses the problem of computing minimum risk paths by taking as objective the expected accident cost. The computation is based on a dynamic programming formulation ...