Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
Abstract— Developing a full-fledged cost-based XQuery optimizer is a fairly complex task. Nowadays, there is little knowledge concerning suitable cost formulae and optimization ...
This paper describes a framework for selecting the optimal call mix to be admitted while employing a bandwidth degradation policy in a wireless cellular network. The optimal proper...
Dynamic class loading during program execution in the JavaTM Programming Language is an impediment for generating code that is as e cient as code generated using static wholeprogr...
Vugranam C. Sreedhar, Michael G. Burke, Jong-Deok ...
Abstract. In this paper, a framework for previous and new quasi-exact extensions of the A -algorithm is presented. In contrast to previous approaches, the new methods guarantee to ...