Many proposals for electronic payment systems (EPS) have been made but the great majority have failed to achieve widespread adoption. The reasons why some proposals succeed and ot...
Grid computing has reached the stage where deployments are mature and many collaborations run in production mode. Mature Grid deployments offer the opportunity for revisiting and ...
In this paper, we tackle learning in distributed systems and the fact that learning does not necessarily involve the participation of agents directly in the inductive process itse...
Today, hand-held computing and media devices are commonly used in our everyday lives. This paper assesses the viability of hand-held devices as effective platforms for “virtual r...
This work presents a systematic comparison between seven kernels (or similarity matrices) on a graph, namely the exponential diffusion kernel, the Laplacian diffusion kernel, the ...