A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
The generation of complex entities with advantageous behaviours beyond our manual design capability requires long-term incremental evolution with continuing emergence. In this pap...
The paper reviews the TREC Programme up to TREC-6 (1997), considering the test results, the substantive findings for IR that follow, and the lessons TREC offers for IR evaluation....
In recent years there has been a growing interest in empirically investigating object-oriented technology (OOT). Much of this empirical work has been experimental in nature. This ...
Ignatios S. Deligiannis, Martin J. Shepperd, Steve...
Abstract. Two explicit error representation formulas are derived for degenerate parabolic PDEs, which are based on evaluating a parabolic residual in negative norms. The resulting ...