Pattern ordering is an important task in data mining because the number of patterns extracted by standard data mining algorithms often exceeds our capacity to manually analyze the...
Relational query optimizers have traditionally relied upon table cardinalities when estimating the cost of the query plans they consider. While this approach has been and continue...
Multihoming is currently widely adopted to provide fault tolerance and traffic engineering capabilities. It is expected that, as telecommunication costs decrease, its adoption will...
In this paper, we propose a virtual file system, “SPDFS,” which provides global declarations in source programs as virtual files to programmers. Global declarations means ob...
We present a quantitative approach for IT portfolio management. This is an approach that CMM level 1 organizations can use to obtain a corporate wide impression of the state of th...