We present a complete XPath cost-based optimization and execution framework and demonstrate its effectiveness and efficiency for a variety of queries and datasets. The framework i...
Haris Georgiadis, Minas Charalambides, Vasilis Vas...
Formal analysis remains outside the mainstream of system design practice. Interactive methods and tools are regarded by some to be on the margin of useful research in this area. Al...
In order to create adaptive Agent Systems with abilities matching those of their biological counterparts, a natural approach is to incorporate classical conditioning mechanisms int...
Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Sander A. Los, L...
An important step in model-based embedded system design consists in mapping functional specifications and their tasks/operations onto execution architectures and their ressources...
Dumitru Potop-Butucaru, Robert de Simone, Yves Sor...
constraint abstractions into integer programming, and to discuss possible combinations of the two approaches. Combinatorial problems are ubiquitous in many real world applications ...