Estimating the selectivity of queries is a crucial problem in database systems. Virtually all database systems rely on the use of selectivity estimates to choose amongst the many ...
New applications for autonomous robots bring them into the human environment where they are to serve as helpful assistants to untrained users in the home or office, or work as ca...
Mind-boggling complexity of EDA tools necessitates reuse of intellectual property in any large-scale commercial or academic operation. However, due to the nature of software, a to...
New approaches in the Web environment are underway. These new methodologies try to leverage it from an information medium to a knowledgeable level, from a machine point of view. Th...
Progressive processing allows a system to satisfy a set of requests under time pressure by limiting the amount of processing allocated to each task based on a predefined hierarchic...