Themost costly aspect of gathering information over the Internet is that of transferring data over the networkto answer the user’s query. Wemaketwo contributions in this paperth...
A central quantity in steady-state simulation is the time-average variance constant. Estimates of this quantity are needed (for example) for constructing confidence intervals, an...
Halim Damerdji, Shane G. Henderson, Peter W. Glynn
Abstract. There is currently a large interest in relational probabilistic models. While the concept of context-specific independence (CSI) has been well-studied for models such as ...
In wireless ad hoc sensor networks, energy use is in many cases the most important constraint since it corresponds directly to operational lifetime. Topology management schemes su...
Quang Gao, Keith J. Blow, David J. Holding, Ian W....
In this paper we deal with the problem of finding an optimal query execution plan in database systems. We improve the analysis of a polynomial-time approximation algorithm due to M...