This paper contributes towards establishing the category QCB, of topological quotients of countably based spaces, and its subcategory TP, of topological predomains, as a flexible ...
Data integration systems provide a uniform query interface (UQI) to multiple, autonomous data sources [4]. This paper presents the universal data model (UDM) that captures the sem...
In this paper, we are motivated by the problem of semantic web services composition. We first present a typical example requiring services composition, give a definition of an aut...
We are concerned with a variation of the knapsack problem as well as of the knapsack sharing problem, where we are given a set of n items and a knapsack of a fixed capacity. As us...
A construction of Bourgain [Bou05] gave the first 2-source extractor to break the min-entropy rate 1/2 barrier. In this note, we write an exposition of his result, giving a high ...