Encouraging voters to truthfully reveal their preferences in an election has long been an important issue. Previous studies have shown that some voting protocols are hard to manip...
A distributed concurrent search algorithm for distributed constraint satisfaction problems (DisCSPs) is presented. Concurrent search algorithms are composed of multiple search proc...
Persistent languages and systems provide the ability to create and manipulate all data in a uniform manner regardless of how long it persists. Such systems are usually implemented...
Ranking is at the heart of many information retrieval applications. Unlike standard regression or classification in which we predict outputs independently, in ranking we are inter...
Most modern parallel computers are clusters using Myrinet or Ethernet communication networks. Several studies have been published comparing the performance of these two networks f...