Synchronous transactional logging is the central mechanism for ensuring data persistency and recoverability in database systems. Unfortunately, magnetic disks are ill-suited for t...
— Accurate query performance prediction (QPP) is central to effective resource management, query optimization and query scheduling. Analytical cost models, used in current genera...
A research prototype is presented for semantic indexing and retrieval in Information Retrieval. The prototype is motivated by a desire to provide a more efficient and effective in...
The banking industry regularly mounts campaigns to improve customer value by offering new products to existing customers. In recent years this approach has gained significant mome...
This paper shows that scattered range data can be smoothed at low cost by fitting a Radial Basis Function (RBF) to the data and convolving with a smoothing kernel (low pass filt...
Jonathan C. Carr, Richard K. Beatson, Bruce C. McC...