The swarm intelligence paradigm has proven to have very interesting properties such as robustness, flexibility and ability to solve complex problems exploiting parallelism and self...
Francesco Mondada, Giovanni C. Pettinaro, Andr&eac...
Weather is one of the major causes of aviation accidents. General aviation (GA) flights account for 92% of all the aviation accidents. In spite of all the official and unofficial ...
In many cases of disagreement it is impossible to demonstrate that either party is wrong. The role of argument in such cases is to persuade rather than refute. Following Perelman, ...
Balancing the needs of information distributors and their audiences has grown harder in the age of the Internet. While the demand for attention continues to increase rapidly with ...
Robert E. Kraut, James Morris, Rahul Telang, Darri...
This paper focuses on parallel query optimization. We consider the operator problem and introduce a new class of execution strategies called Linear-Oriented Bushy Trees (LBTs). Co...