— In this paper, we show how an active binocular head, the IIS head, can be easily calibrated with very high accuracy. Our calibration method can also be applied to many other bi...
Chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) and other manufacturing steps in very deep submicron VLSI have varying effects on device and interconnect features, depending on local character...
Yu Chen, Andrew B. Kahng, Gabriel Robins, Alexande...
Accurate prediction of operator execution time is a prerequisite for database query optimization. Although extensively studied for conventional disk-based DBMSs, cost modeling in ...
Stefan Manegold, Peter A. Boncz, Martin L. Kersten
We study the efficient evaluation of top-k queries over data items, where the score of each item is dynamically computed by applying an item-specific function whose parameter valu...
Lin Guo, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Jay...
: Kriging-based exploration strategies often rely on a single Ordinary Kriging model which parametric covariance kernel is selected a priori or on the basis of an initial data set....