Although open-source software development has virtues, there is reason to believe that the approach would not have a significant effect on the security of today’s systems. The ...
Multi-agent systems are prone to failures typical of any distributed system. Agents and resources may become unavailable due to machine crashes, communication breakdowns, process ...
Large scale networked image retrieval systems face a number of problems that are not fully satis ed by current systems. On one hand, integrated solutions that store all image data...
Electronic newsgroups are one of the primary means for the dissemination, exchange and sharing of information. We argue that the current newsgroup model is unsatisfactory, especial...
The nearest- or near-neighbor query problems arise in a large variety of database applications, usually in the context of similarity searching. Of late, there has been increasing ...