This paper presents a verification technique for functional comparison of large combinational circuits using a novel combination of known approaches. The idea is based on a tight...
Abstract. The pure pattern calculus generalises the pure lambda-calculus by basing computation on pattern-matching instead of beta-reduction. The simplicity and power of the calcul...
Creating good adaptation policies is critical to building complex autonomic systems since it is such policies that define the system configuration used in any given situation. W...
Gueyoung Jung, Kaustubh R. Joshi, Matti A. Hiltune...
The rich dependency structure found in the columns of real-world relational databases can be exploited to great advantage, but can also cause query optimizers--which usually assum...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul B...
Heuristic Algorithms (HA) are very widely used to tackle practical problems in operations research. They are simple, easy to understand and inspire confidence. Many of these HAs a...