Given a service request such as scheduling an appointment or purchasing a product, it is possible that the invocation of the service results in too many solutions that all satisfy ...
Abstract. Ambient intelligence (AmI) is a promising paradigm for humancentred interaction based on mobile and context-aware computing, natural interfaces and collaborative work. AM...
Sequential pattern mining aims to find frequent patterns (guarded by a minimum support) in a database of sequences. As the support decreases the number of sequential patterns will...
We study the problem of designing truthful algorithms for scheduling a set of tasks, each one owned by a selfish agent, to a set of parallel (identical or unrelated) machines in or...
— In this paper, we present a simple technique to approximate the performance union bound of a punctured turbo code. The bound approximation exploits only those terms of the tran...
Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou, Miguel R. D. Rodrigues, Ia...