A new type of optimization, called predicate move-around, ia introduced. It is shown how this optimization `considerably improvea the efficiency of evaluating SQL queries that hav...
Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Yehoshua Sagi...
Given that a negotiation outcome is determined to a large extent by the successive offers exchanged by negotiating agents, it is useful to analyze dynamic patterns of the bidding,...
Koen V. Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker, Dmytro Tykh...
Abstract. Grid applications have increasingly sophisticated functional and security requirements. However, current techniques mostly protect only the resource provider from attacks...
The task of providing an optimal analysis of the state of the atmosphere requires the development of dynamic data-driven systems (d3 as) that efficiently integrate the observationa...
Adrian Sandu, Emil M. Constantinescu, Wenyuan Liao...
Abstract. Sparse matrix-vector multiplication is an important computational kernel that tends to perform poorly on modern processors, largely because of its high ratio of memory op...