Physical database design is important for query performance in a shared-nothing parallel database system, in which data is horizontally partitioned among multiple independent node...
Jun Rao, Chun Zhang, Nimrod Megiddo, Guy M. Lohman
Differential evolution (DE) is a simple yet powerful evolutionary algorithm for global numerical optimization. Different strategies have been proposed for the offspring generation...
Relevance feedback, which traditionally uses the terms in the relevant documents to enrich the user's initial query, is an effective method for improving retrieval performanc...
—Evolutionary algorithms have been very popular optimization methods for a wide variety of applications. However, in spite of their advantages, their computational cost is still ...
Mohsen Davarynejad, Jafar Rezaei, Jos L. M. Vranck...
Abstract. This paper investigates the efficiency of in-door next location prediction by comparing several prediction methods. The scenario concerns people in an office building vis...
Jan Petzold, Andreas Pietzowski, Faruk Bagci, Wolf...