In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...
The paper investigates fuzzy relations on a finite domain in the cutworthy framework, dealing with a new property coming from the information theory. If the domain of a relation i...
We consider here the case where our knowledge is partial and based on a betting density function which is n-dimensional Gaussian. The explicit formulation of the least committed b...
Francois Caron, Branko Ristic, Emmanuel Duflos, Ph...
Data-driven knowledge discovery is becoming a new trend in various scientific fields. In light of this, the goal of the present paper is to introduce a novel framework to study one...
Chen Yu, Thomas G. Smith, Shohei Hidaka, Matthias ...
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...