: Skyline queries have recently received a lot of attention due to their intuitive query formulation: users can state preferences with respect to several attributes. Unlike numeric...
Opinion retrieval is a document retrieval process, which requires documents to be retrieved and ranked according to their opinions about a query topic. A relevant document must sa...
We explore some presynaptic mechanisms of the calyx of Held synapse through a stochastic model. The model, drawn from a kinetic approach developed in literature, exploits process c...
Andrea Bracciali, Marcello Brunelli, Enrico Catald...
In search for “realistic” bio-inspired computing models, we consider asynchronous spiking neural P systems, in the hope to get a class of computing devices with decidable prope...
Social networks support efficient decentralized search: people can collectively construct short paths to a specified target in the network. Rank-based friendship—where the prob...
David Barbella, George Kachergis, David Liben-Nowe...