: 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 ...
We address the problem of visually detecting causal events and tting them together into a coherent story of the action witnessed by the camera. We show that this can be done by re...
The goal of input-output modeling is to apply a test input to a system, analyze the results, and learn something useful from the causeeffect pair. Any automated modeling tool that...
In the knowledge economy, a firm's intellectual capital represents the only sustainable source of competitive advantage. Intellectual capital manifests itself, predominantly,...
Experimental performance studies on computer systems, including Grids, require deep understandings on their workload characteristics. The need arises from two important and closel...