This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
For mobile embedded systems, the energy consumption is a limiting factor because of today’s battery capacities. Besides the processor, memory accesses consume a high amount of en...
Feature selection is fundamental to knowledge discovery from massive amount of high-dimensional data. In an effort to establish theoretical justification for feature selection al...
We present FJig, a simple calculus where basic building blocks are classes in the style of Featherweight Java, declaring elds, methods and one constructor. However, inheritance has...
Abstract. Side-chain prediction is an important subproblem of the general protein folding problem. Despite much progress in side-chain prediction, performance is far from satisfact...