The primary-backup replication model is one of the commonly adopted approaches to providing fault tolerant data services. Its extension to the real-time environment, however, impo...
Abstract. This paper explores potential improvements to Zhang’s personalized trust approach for e-commerce, in particular examining means of optimizing the number of advisors tha...
Efficiency is a big concern when using simulation to estimate rare-event probabilities, since a huge number of simulation replications may be needed in order to obtain a reasonabl...
Many visual representations for trees have been developed in information and software visualization. One of them are cone trees, a well-known three-dimensional representation for ...
This paper presents an adaptation of a novel algorithm based on the foraging behavior of honey bees to solve constrained numerical optimization problems. The modifications focus on...