The need to improve a suboptimal execution plan picked by the query optimizer for a repeatedly run SQL query arises routinely. Complex expressions, skewed or correlated data, and ...
The paper describes a simulation substrate that allows thinking agents to interact with a world. The world is simulated by standard discrete event simulation, but the timing of an...
The Component Agent Framework for domain-Experts (CAFnE) toolkit is an extension to the Prometheus Design Tool (PDT). It uses the detailed design produced by PDT with further anno...
Gaya Buddhinath Jayatilleke, John Thangarajah, Lin...
We propose GRIP, a scalable global routing technique via Integer Programming (IP). GRIP optimizes wirelength and via cost without going through a layer assignment phase. GRIP sele...
Tai-Hsuan Wu, Azadeh Davoodi, Jeffrey T. Linderoth
Dynamic changes in complex, real-time environments, such as modern video games, can violate an agent's expectations. We describe a system that responds competently to such vi...