Overlapping and multi-version techniques are two popular frameworks that transform an ephemeral index into a multiple logical-tree structure in order to support versioning databas...
If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...
An optimizing compiler has a hard time to generate a code which will perform at top speed for an arbitrary data set size. In general, the low level optimization process must take i...
Efficient and accurate data cleaning is an essential task for the successful deployment of RFID systems. Although important advances have been made in tag detection rates, it is s...
In many reinforcement learning applications, the set of possible actions can be partitioned by the programmer into subsets of similar actions. This paper presents a technique for ...