Testing an SQL database system by running large sets of deterministic or stochastic SQL statements is common practice in commercial database development. However, code defects oft...
A growing number of applications require high capacity, high throughput tertiary storage systems 1 2 . We are investigating how data striping ideas apply to arrays of magnetic tap...
Protocols that provide reliable communicationon top of a network that can lose packets rely on periodically retransmitting packets. The choice of retransmission timeout critically...
Clustering accuracy of partitional clustering algorithm for categorical data primarily depends upon the choice of initial data points (modes) to instigate the clustering process. ...
Recently, Helmert and Geffner proposed the context-enhanced additive heuristic, where fact costs are evaluated relative to context states that arise from achieving first a pivot c...