Cost-based query optimizers need to estimate the selectivity of conjunctive predicates when comparing alternative query execution plans. To this end, advanced optimizers use multi...
Volker Markl, Nimrod Megiddo, Marcel Kutsch, Tam M...
The success of stochastic algorithms is often due to their ability to effectively amplify the performance of search heuristics. This is certainly the case with stochastic sampling ...
Abstract. Within the field of software agents, there has been increasing interest in automating the process of calendar scheduling in recent years. Calendar (or meeting) schedulin...
The Library in the card is the slogan which would summarize the aims of the Univeritat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) Library Service in its involvement in several EC Libraries Progr...
A common statistical problem is that of nding the median element in a set of data. This paper presents a fastand portable parallel algorithm for nding the median given a set of el...