In this paper we describe novel techniques that make it possible to build an industrial-strength tool for automating the choice of indexes in the physical design of a SQL database...
Modern applications requiring spatial network processing pose many interesting query optimization challenges. In many cases, query processing depends on the corresponding graph si...
Eleftherios Tiakas, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Ale...
This paper describes POPE-GP, a system that makes use of the NSGA-II multiobjective evolutionary algorithm as an alternative, parameter-free technique for eliminating program bloat...
Yaniv Bernstein, Xiaodong Li, Victor Ciesielski, A...
Application performance tuning is a complex process that requires assembling various types of information and correlating it with source code to pinpoint the causes of performance...
John M. Mellor-Crummey, Robert J. Fowler, David B....
Predictive models in direct marketing seek to identify individuals most likely to respond to promotional solicitations or other intervention programs. While standard modeling appr...