Most modern RDBMS depend on the query processing optimizer’s cost model to choose the best execution plan for a given query. Since the physical IO (PIO) is a costly operation to...
There are many planning applications that require an agent to coordinate its activities with processes that change continuously over time. Several proposals have been made for com...
— With the rise in complexity of modern systems, designers are spending a significant time on at the system level of abstraction. This paper introduces Model Algebra, a formalis...
ing spatio-temporal data as abstract data types into already existing data models is a promising approach to creating spatio-temporal query languages. In this context, an importan...
Self-adapting systems based on multiple concurrent applications must decide how to allocate scarce resources to applications and how to set the quality parameters of each applicat...
Vahe Poladian, David Garlan, Mary Shaw, M. Satyana...