The traditional statistical assumption for interpreting histograms and justifying approximate query processing methods based on them is that all elements in a bucket have the same...
Based on the renowned method of Bitton et al. (see [1]) we develop a concise but comprehensive analytical model for the well-known Binary Merge Sort, Bitonic Sort, Nested-Loop Join...
In this paper we propose a formalism for symbolic negotiation. We regard symbolic negotiation as cooperative problem solving (CPS), which is based on symbolic reasoning and is ext...
We refine and extend an earlier MDL denoising criterion for wavelet-based denoising. We start by showing that the denoising problem can be reformulated as a clustering problem, whe...
We describe two novel constructs for programming parallel machines with multi-level memory hierarchies: call-up, which allows a child task to invoke computation on its parent, and...
Michael Bauer, John Clark, Eric Schkufza, Alex Aik...