Estimating the result size of complex queries that involve selection on multiple attributes and the join of several relations is a difficult but fundamental task in database query...
We consider a set of views stating possibly conflicting facts. Negative facts in the views may come, e.g., from functional dependencies in the underlying database schema. We want ...
This paper argues that the agent-based simulation approach is just the one appropriate to the social sciences (including economics). Although there were many predecessor approache...
Information empowers those who make sense from its successful interpretation; this is especially true on the subject of weather where the recipient is required to have prior forms...
Raymond Koon Chuan Koh, Henry Xin Liong Tan, Henry...
Self-organization of brain areas in animals begins prenatally, evidently driven by spontaneously generated internal patterns. The neural structures continue to develop postnatally...
Vinod K. Valsalam, James A. Bednar, Risto Miikkula...