Gesture recognition is becoming a more common interaction tool in the fields of ubiquitous and wearable computing. Designing a system to perform gesture recognition, however, can...
Tracy L. Westeyn, Helene Brashear, Amin Atrash, Th...
The family of natural evolution strategies (NES) offers a principled approach to real-valued evolutionary optimization by following the natural gradient of the expected fitness....
Tobias Glasmachers, Tom Schaul, Yi Sun, Daan Wiers...
Most modern DBMS optimizers rely upon a cost model to choose the best query execution plan (QEP) for any given query. Cost estimates are heavily dependent upon the optimizer’s e...
Michael Stillger, Guy M. Lohman, Volker Markl, Mok...
We propose a new compression algorithm that is tailored to database applications. It can be applied to a collection of records, and is especially e ective for records with many lo...
This paper describes the development and use of practical examinations which include a significant element of software control of the administrative process. The educational metho...