Distributed computing on heterogeneous nodes, or grid computing, provides a substantial increase in computational power available for many applications. This paper reports our expe...
Abstract. This work compares different metaheuristics techniques applied to an important problem in natural language: tagging. Tagging amounts to assigning to each word in a text ...
We propose using least attained service (LAS) scheduling in network routers to prevent some connections against utilizing all or a large fraction of network bandwidth. This phenome...
Idris A. Rai, Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Ernst W. Bie...
The 9/11 tragedy triggered an increased interest in biometric passports. According to several sources [2], the electronic ID market is expected to increase by more than 50% per ann...
We consider the problem of computing the optimal swap edges of a shortest-path tree. This theoretical problem arises in practice in systems that offer point-offailure shortest-path...
Paola Flocchini, Antonio Mesa Enriques, Linda Pagl...