In this paper, we address the problem of selfishness in the context of replica allocation in a MANET, i.e., a selfish node may not share its own memory space to store replica for the benefit of other nodes. In this paper, we shall refer to such a problem as the selfish replica allocation. Simply, selfish […]
Class-dependent density-based feature Elimination
High-dimensional data sets are inherently sparse and hence, can be transformed to lower dimensions without losing too much information about the classes. In this paper we propose a new feature ranking algorithm, termed as, class-dependent density-based feature elimination, for binary data sets. CDFE uses a measure termed as, diff-criterion, to estimate the relevance of features. […]
Citation Parser using Sequent Alignment
Parsing citations is essential for integrating bibliographical information published on the Internet. Most citation management techniques are based on the assumption that we can correctly identify the main components of a citation, such as authors’ names, title, publication venue, date, and the number of pages. In this paper, we propose a sequence-alignment based citation parser, […]
MCE – Mobile Commerce Explorer for mining and prediction of mobile users
Abstract In this paper, we develop pattern mining and prediction techniques that explore the correlation between the moving behavior and purchasing transactions of mobile users to explore potential M-Commerce features. The MCE framework consists of three major components: The first component is Similarity Inference Model (SIM) for measuring the similarities among stores and items. […]
An Autonomous Engine for Services Configuration and Deployment
The runtime management of the infrastructure providing service-based systems is a complex task, up to the point where manual operation struggles to be cost effective. As the functionality is provided by a set of dynamically composed distributed services, in order to achieve a management objective multiple operations have to be applied over the distributed elements […]
Labeling Dynamic XML Documents: An Order-Centric Approach
Dynamic XML labeling schemes have important applications in XML Database Management Systems. In this paper, we explore dynamic XML labeling schemes from a novel order-centric perspective. We compare the various labeling schemes proposed in the literature with a special focus on their orders of labels. We show that the order of labels fundamentally impacts the […]