—As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as multimedia, spatial, time-series, and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retri...
Abstract— A bloom filter is a simple, space-efficient, randomized data structure for concisely representing a static data set, in order to support approximate membership querie...
We define the class of games called simulation-based games, in which the payoffs are available as an output of an oracle (simulator), rather than specified analytically or using a...
VLSI placement tools usually work in two steps: First, the cells that have to be placed are roughly spread out over the chip area ignoring disjointness (global placement). Then, i...
Active fusion is a process that purposively selects the most informative information from multiple sources as well as combines these information for achieving a reliable result ef...