— Accurate query performance prediction (QPP) is central to effective resource management, query optimization and query scheduling. Analytical cost models, used in current genera...
The C source code associated with the Simulation 101 preconference workshop (offered at the 2006 and 2007 Winter Simulation Conferences) is presented here. This paper begins with ...
Spatial joins are one of the most important operations for combining spatial objects of several relations. In this paper, spatial join processing is studied in detail for extended...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ralf Schneid...
Abstract. We have argued previously that the e ectiveness of a veri cation system derives not only from the power of its individual features for expression and deduction, but from ...
A new stochastic optimization algorithm referred to by the authors as the `Mean-Variance Optimization' (MVO) algorithm is presented in this paper. MVO falls into the category ...
Istvan Erlich, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Nakawiro...