The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
In this study, we compared Entailer, a computational tool that evaluates the degree to which one text is entailed by another, to a variety of other text relatedness metrics (LSA, ...
Philip M. McCarthy, Vasile Rus, Scott A. Crossley,...
In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method of identifying traffic conditions on surface streets given location traces collected from on-road vehicles--this requires o...
To distribute data from one sender to multiple receivers efficiently and concurrently, multicasting is one of the most appropriate mechanisms. Application Layer Multicast (ALM), ...
Legal regulations and industry standards require organizations to measure and maintain a specified IT-security level. Although several IT-security metrics approaches have been de...