With the growing number of marketplaces and trading partners in the e–commerce environment, software tools designed to act on behalf of human traders are increasingly used to au...
Yain-Whar Si, David Edmond, Arthur H. M. ter Hofst...
Chief information officers (CIOs) have the difficult job of running a function that uses a lot of resources but offers little measurable evidence of its value. Line managers are i...
An estimation algorithm for a query is a probabilistic algorithm that computes an approximation for the size (number of tuples) of the query. One class of estimation algorithms us...
Abstract: This paper presents a novel design of a Jiegged "spider" robot capable of moving in a wide range of two-dimensional tunnels. The spider moves in a quasistatic m...
Although an optimistic approach has been shown to be better than locking protocols for real-time database systems (RTDBS), it has the problems of unnecessary restarts and heavy re...