This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
Abstract We present a fast compression and decompression scheme for natural language texts that allows e cient and exible string matching by searching the compressed text directly....
Edleno Silva de Moura, Gonzalo Navarro, Nivio Zivi...
—Spatial query execution is an essential functionality of a sensor network. Redundancy within a sensor network can be exploited to reduce the communication cost incurred in execu...
Existing dynamic race detectors suffer from at least one of the following three limitations: (i) space overhead per memory location grows linearly with the number of parallel thre...
Abstract This work studies the properties of finite automata recognizing vectors with real components, encoded positionally in a given integer numeration base. Such automata are us...