We study the problem of finding efficient equivalent viewbased rewritings of relational queries, focusing on query optimization using materialized views under the assumption that ...
— This paper presents new results on the formal design of distributed coordinating agents in a discrete-event framework. In this framework, agents are modeled to be individually ...
How do you tell a computer from a human? The situation arises often on the Internet, when online polls are conducted, accounts are requested, undesired email is received, and chat...
Patrice Y. Simard, Richard Szeliski, Josh Benaloh,...
We study a novel clustering problem in which the pairwise relations between objects are categorical. This problem can be viewed as clustering the vertices of a graph whose edges a...
Francesco Bonchi, Aristides Gionis, Francesco Gull...
We combine mixed integer linear programming (MILP) and constraint programming (CP) to solve planning and scheduling problems. Tasks are allocated to facilities using MILP and sche...