Preference-based queries often referred to as skyline queries play an important role in cooperative query processing. However, their prohibitive result sizes pose a severe challen...
Benchmarks are crucial to understanding software systems and assessing their performance. In file-system research, synthetic benchmarks are accepted and widely used as substitutes...
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. ...
Abstract This paper is about tool support for knowledgeintensive engineering tasks. In particular, it introduces software technology to assist the design of complex technical syste...
Abstract--Motivated by potential applications in second-language pedagogy, we present a novel approach to using articulatory information to improve automatic detection of typical p...
Setting up runtime security policies as required for firewalls or as envisioned by policy languages for the Semantic Web is a difficult task, especially for lay users who have l...