One of the most challenging tasks for the database administrator is to physically design the database to attain optimal performance for a given workload. Physical design is hard b...
Cristina Maier, Debabrata Dash, Ioannis Alagiannis...
Backbone variables have the same assignment in all solutions to a given constraint satisfaction problem; more generally, bias represents the proportion of solutions that assign a v...
Eric I. Hsu, Christian J. Muise, J. Christopher Be...
In this paper, we reported experiments of unsupervised automatic acquisition of Italian and English verb subcategorization frames (SCFs) from general and domain corpora. The propo...
Alessandro Lenci, Barbara McGillivray, Simonetta M...
In many planning situations, a planner is required to return a diverse set of plans satisfying the same goals which will be used by the external systems collectively. We take a do...
Biplav Srivastava, Tuan A. Nguyen, Alfonso Gerevin...
A pattern database is a heuristic function stored as a lookup table which stores the lengths of optimal solutions for instances of subproblems. All previous pattern databases had ...
Ariel Felner, Ram Meshulam, Robert C. Holte, Richa...