It is easy to create new combinatorial games but more difficult to predict those that will interest human players. We examine the concept of game quality, its automated measurement...
New digital subscriber line (DSL) technologies are being developed to meet the ever-increasing bandwidth demand of the user. One very promising approach injects "common-mode&q...
Wim Foubert, Carine Neus, Leo Van Biesen, Yves Rol...
: In the last decade, many evaluation results have been created within the evaluation initiatives like TREC, NTCIR and CLEF. The large amount of data available has led to substanti...
Virtually every commercial query optimizer chooses the best plan for a query using a cost model that relies heavily on accurate cardinality estimation. Cardinality estimation erro...
Volker Markl, Vijayshankar Raman, David E. Simmen,...
Fine-grained program power behavior is useful in both evaluating power optimizations and observing power optimization opportunities. Detailed power simulation is time consuming and...