In this paper, we study the evaluation of skyline queries with partially-ordered attributes. Because such attributes lack a total ordering, traditional index-based evaluation algo...
Virtually all proposals for querying XML include a class of query we term "containment queries". It is also clear that in the foreseeable future, a substantial amount of...
Chun Zhang, Jeffrey F. Naughton, David J. DeWitt, ...
Program analysis has been increasingly used in software engineering tasks such as auditing programs for security vulnerabilities and finding errors in general. Such tools often re...
Monica S. Lam, John Whaley, V. Benjamin Livshits, ...
Recently, there has been substantial interest in the design of crosslayer protocols for wireless networks. These protocols optimize certain performance metric(s) of interest (e.g....
Deepti Chafekar, V. S. Anil Kumar, Madhav V. Marat...
Monte Carlo methods and their subsequent simulated annealing are able to minimize general energy functions. However, the slow convergence of simulated annealing compared with more ...