Runtime bloat degrades significantly the performance and scalability of software systems. An important source of bloat is the inefficient use of containers. It is expensive to cre...
We address the challenge of semantic gap reduction for image retrieval through an improved SVM-based active relevance feedback framework, together with a hybrid visual and concept...
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
Data domain description techniques aim at deriving concise descriptions of objects belonging to a category of interest. For instance, the support vector domain description (SVDD) l...
Buffering of intermediate results in dataflow diagrams can significantly reduce latency when a user browses these results or re-executes a diagram with slightly different inputs. ...