The database query optimizer requires the estimation of the query selectivity to find the most efficient access plan. For queries referencing multiple attributes from the same rel...
Many applications require detecting structural changes in a scene over a period of time. Comparing intensity values of successive images is not effective as such changes don'...
An importantuse of data warehousing is to provide temporal views over the history of source data that may itself be non-temporal. While recent work in view maintenance is applicab...
Based on qualitative analysis of three groups collaborating on a research task in a distributed setting, we identify four breakdowns in creativity: (1) Minority ideas were under-c...
Sequential selection, introduced for Evolution Strategies (ESs) with the aim of accelerating their convergence, consists in performing the evaluations of the different offspring...