We show a tight lower bound of Ω(N log log N) on the number of transmissions required to compute several functions (including the parity function and the majority function) in a...
Multiple combinations of hardware and network components can be selected to design an information technology (IT) infrastructure that satisfies performance requirements. The profe...
A query optimizer compares alternative plans in its search space to find the best plan for a given query. Depending on the search space and the enumeration algorithm, optimizers v...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Jun Rao, Guy M. Lohman, Dengfeng Ga...
Abstract—Consider a communications system where the detector generates a mix of hard and soft outputs, which are then fed into a soft-input channel decoder. In such a setting, it...
Ernesto Zimmermann, David L. Milliner, John R. Bar...
Abstract— Target shape design optimization problem (TSDOP) is a miniature model for real world design optimization problems. It is proposed as a test bed to design and analyze op...
Pan Zhang, Xin Yao, Lei Jia, Bernhard Sendhoff, Th...