This paper describes the Query Rewrite facility of the Starburst extensible database system, a novel phase of query optimization. We present a suite of rewrite rules used in Starb...
Hamid Pirahesh, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Waqar Hasan
We analyse some recent approaches to the global illumination problem by introducing the corresponding reflection operators, and we demonstrate the advantages of a two-pass method....
We present a symbolic method for p-semiflow computation, based on zero-suppressed decision diagrams. Both the traditional explicit methods and our new symbolic method rely on Farka...
Knowledge transfer is widely held to be a primary mechanism that enables humans to quickly learn new complex concepts when given only small training sets. In this paper, we apply ...
We describe a new task-based corpus in the Spanish language. The corpus consists of videos, transcripts, and annotations of the interaction between a naive speaker and a confedera...