—As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as multimedia, spatial, time-series, and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retri...
Abstract. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a paradigm that employs a set of cooperating agents to solve functions or obtain good solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. ...
Profiling customers’ behavior has become increasingly important for many applications such as fraud detection, targeted marketing and promotion. Customer behavior profiles are cr...
: In this paper we consider the problem of inducing causal relations from statistical data. Although it is well known that a correlation does not justify the claim of a causal rela...
This paper presents a process algebra for specifying soft real-time constraints in a compositional way. For these soft constraints we take a stochastic point of view and allow arb...
Pedro R. D'Argenio, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Ed Brinks...