A way to optimize performance of relational row store databases is to reduce the row widths by vertically partitioning tables into table fractions in order to minimize the number ...
Artificial neural networks (ANN's) are associated with difficulties like lack of success in a given problem and unpredictable level of accuracy that could be achieved. In eve...
The execution performance of an information gathering plan can suffer significantly due to remote I/O latencies. A streaming dataflow model of execution addresses the problem to s...
This article is inspired by recent psychological studies confirming that a child is not born a blank slate but has important innate capabilities. An important part of the "le...
We consider a data-structural problem motivated by version control of a hierarchical directory structure in a system like Subversion. The model is that directories and files can b...