Although documents have hundreds of thousands of unique words, only a small number of words are significantly useful for intelligent services. For this reason, feature extraction ...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
Aggressive hardware prefetching often significantly increases energy consumption in the memory system. Experiments show that a major fraction of prefetching related energy degrad...
In this paper we focus on the following problem in information management: given a large collection of recorded information and some knowledge of the process that is generating th...
We present an optimization method and algorithm designed for three objectives: physical data independence, semantic optimization, and generalized tableau minimization. The method ...