Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
Decision-theoretic planning is a popular approach to sequential decision making problems, because it treats uncertainty in sensing and acting in a principled way. In single-agent ...
Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Nikos A. ...
Virtually every commercial query optimizer chooses the best plan for a query using a cost model that relies heavily on accurate cardinality estimation. Cardinality estimation erro...
Volker Markl, Vijayshankar Raman, David E. Simmen,...
The synergy of software and hardware leads to efficient application expression profile (AEP) not only in terms of execution time and energy but also optimal architecture usage. We...
By analogy with merging documents rankings, the outputs from multiple search results clustering algorithms can be combined into a single output. In this paper we study the feasibi...