A cost-effective approach to building up scalable Videoon-Demand (VoD) servers is to couple a number of VoD servers together in a cluster. In this article, we study a crucial vide...
The reusing of the same hardware resources to implement speed-critical algorithms, without interrupting system operation, is one of the main reasons for the increasing use of reco...
Manuel G. Gericota, Gustavo R. Alves, Miguel L. Si...
We report the formulation and implementation of a genetic algorithm to address multi-objective optimisation of solar gain to buildings with the goal of minimising energy consumpti...
Sponsored search auctions provide a marketplace where advertisers can bid for millions of advertising opportunities to promote their products. The main difficulty facing the adver...
Skyline queries help users make intelligent decisions over complex data, where different and often conflicting criteria are considered. A challenging problem is to support skylin...