GRID technology, emerging in the late nineties, has evolved from a metacomputing architecture towards a pervasive computation and information utility. However, the architectural de...
Testing a database engine has been and continues to be a challenging task. The space of possible SQL queries along with their possible access paths is practically unbounded. Moreo...
Hardik Bati, Leo Giakoumakis, Steve Herbert, Aleks...
A successful industrial application of a novel type biomass estimator based on Genetic Programming (GP) is described in the paper. The biomass is inferred from other available meas...
Arthur K. Kordon, Elsa Jordaan, Lawrence Chew, Gui...
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
This paper describes work towards designing a computer vision system for helping users look up the meaning of a sign. Sign lookup is treated as a video database retrieval problem....