A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
Data mining is a new, important and fast growing database application. Outlier (exception) detection is one kind of data mining, which can be applied in a variety of areas like mon...
In this paper, we develop techniques based on evolvability statistics of the fitness landscape surrounding sampled solutions. Averaging the measures over a sample of equal fitness...
Tom Smith, Phil Husbands, Paul J. Layzell, Michael...
This article constructs a foundation for warfare at the individual level, where agents in two groups fire and absorb shots according to a non-stationary Poisson process. We determ...
Software inspection is one of the key enablers for quality improvement and defect cost reduction. Although its benefits are shown in many studies, a major obstacle to implement an...