This paper deals with the evaluation of acyclic Boolean conjunctive queries in relational databases. By well-known results of Yannakakis [1981], this problem is solvable in polynom...
Intelligent agents designed to work in complex, dynamic environments must respond robustly and flexibly to environmental and circumstantial changes. An agent must be capable of de...
John Thangarajah, James Harland, David N. Morley, ...
Feature interaction detection methods, whether online or offline, depend on previous knowledge of conflicts between the actions executed by the features. This knowledge is usually ...
Ahmed F. Layouni, Luigi Logrippo, Kenneth J. Turne...
Being able to model contention for software resources (e.g., a critical section or database lock) is paramount to building performance models that capture all aspects of the delay...
Learning general truths from the observation of simple domains and, further, learning how to use this knowledge are essential capabilities for any intelligent agent to understand ...
Paulo Santos, Derek R. Magee, Anthony G. Cohn, Dav...