Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
Abstract. The authors of this paper have all developed a framework that allows runtime adaptation of software systems. Based on our experiences, we wish to summarize common pitfall...
Peter Ebraert, Theo D'Hondt, Yves Vandewoude, Yola...
Abstract Colin Campbell, Wolfgang Grieskamp, Lev Nachmanson, Wolfram Schulte, Nikolai Tillmann, and Margus Veanes Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA Abstract. We describe a pract...
Colin Campbell, Wolfgang Grieskamp, Lev Nachmanson...
We study if and when the inequality dp(H) ≤ rel∆(H) holds for schemas H in chromosomes that are structured as trees. The disruption probability dp(H) is the probability that a...
A common technique for improving performance for database query retrieval is to decluster the database among multiple disks so that retrievals can be parallelized. In this paper we...