Combinatorial Auctions (CAs), where users bid on combination of items, have emerged as a useful tool for resource allocation in distributed systems. However, two main difficulties...
Document clustering is a very hard task in Automatic Text Processing since it requires to extract regular patterns from a document collection without a priori knowledge on the cat...
Histograms and Wavelet synopses provide useful tools in query optimization and approximate query answering. Traditional histogram construction algorithms, such as V-Optimal, optim...
— Mapping an environment with an imaging sensor becomes very challenging if the environment to be mapped is unknown and has to be explored. Exploration involves the planning of v...
We address a fundamental problem arising from analysis of biomolecular sequences. The input consists of two numbers wmin and wmax and a sequence S of n number pairs (ai, wi) with ...