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FC
2005
Springer
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16 years 12 days ago
Achieving Fairness in Private Contract Negotiation
Abstract. Suppose Alice and Bob are two entities (e.g. agents, organizations, etc.) that wish to negotiate a contract. A contract consists of several clauses, and each party has ce...
Keith B. Frikken, Mikhail J. Atallah
IBPRIA
2005
Springer
16 years 12 days ago
Fast Surface Grading Using Color Statistics in the CIE Lab Space
In this paper we approach the problem of fast surface grading of flat pieces decorated with random patterns. The proposed method is based on the use of global statistics of color ...
Fernando López, José Miguel Valiente...
MSWIM
2004
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
Quantile models for the threshold range for k-connectivity
This study addresses the problem of k-connectivity of a wireless multihop network consisting of randomly placed nodes with a common transmission range, by utilizing empirical regr...
Henri Koskinen
WIDM
2004
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
Probabilistic models for focused web crawling
A Focused crawler must use information gleaned from previously crawled page sequences to estimate the relevance of a newly seen URL. Therefore, good performance depends on powerfu...
Hongyu Liu, Evangelos E. Milios, Jeannette Janssen
AP2PC
2004
Springer
16 years 9 days ago
Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks: Topological Properties and Search Performance
Performing efficient decentralized search is a fundamental problem in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems. There has been a significant amount of research recently on developing robust sel...
George H. L. Fletcher, Hardik A. Sheth, Katy B&oum...