Ants provide an attractive metaphor for robots that "cooperate" in performing complex tasks. What, however, are the algorithmic consequences of following this metaphor? ...
Mutual exclusion locks limit concurrency but offer low latency. Software transactional memory (STM) typically has higher latency, but scales well. In this paper we propose transac...
Luke Dalessandro, David Dice, Michael L. Scott, Ni...
Recommender systems (RSs) are popular tools dealing with information overload problems in eCommerce Web sites. RSs match user preferences with item representations and recommend t...
Fabiana Lorenzi, Francesco Ricci, Mara Abel, Ana L...
The demand for outsourcing in the information systems (IS) field has become a part of basic corporate strategy and has experienced a considerable growth in recent years. The proce...
Pair approximations have often been used to predict equilibrium conditions in spatially-explicit epidemiological and ecological systems. In this work, we investigate whether this ...