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BTW
2005
Springer
113views Database» more  BTW 2005»
14 years 4 months ago
A Learning Optimizer for a Federated Database Management System
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
DSS
2008
186views more  DSS 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
A machine learning approach to web page filtering using content and structure analysis
As the Web continues to grow, it has become increasingly difficult to search for relevant information using traditional search engines. Topic-specific search engines provide an al...
Michael Chau, Hsinchun Chen
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
197views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Automated and on-demand provisioning of virtual machines for database applications
Utility computing delivers compute and storage resources to applications as an `on-demand utility', much like electricity, from a distributed collection of computing resource...
Piyush Shivam, Azbayar Demberel, Pradeep Gunda, Da...
ITS
2010
Springer
167views Multimedia» more  ITS 2010»
14 years 3 months ago
Characterizing the Effectiveness of Tutorial Dialogue with Hidden Markov Models
Identifying effective tutorial dialogue strategies is a key issue for intelligent tutoring systems research. Human-human tutoring offers a valuable model for identifying effective ...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Amy Ingra...
ACMICEC
2008
ACM
272views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2008»
14 years 18 days ago
Adapting the interaction state model in conversational recommender systems
Conventional conversational recommender systems support interaction strategies that are hard-coded into the system in advance. In this context, Reinforcement Learning techniques h...
Tariq Mahmood, Francesco Ricci