Previous researchers note the problem for semantic optimisation of database queries caused by its production of a large number of semantically equivalent alternative queries, from...
Experiments relating to TREC-7 Ad Hoc, HP and VLC tasks are described and results reported. Minor re nements of last year's Ad Hoc methods do not appear to have resulted in w...
David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul B. Thistlewaite
: We explore the abstraction of failure transparency in which the operating system provides the illusion of failure-free operation. To provide failure transparency, an operating sy...
David E. Lowell, Subhachandra Chandra, Peter M. Ch...
This paper is about the use of metric data structures in high-dimensionalor non-Euclidean space to permit cached sufficientstatisticsaccelerationsof learning algorithms. It has re...
Given a stationary simulation process with unknown mean µ , interest frequently lies in, and various methods exist for, developing estimates and confidence intervals for µ . Typ...