Workload adaptation is a performance management process in which an autonomic database management system (DBMS) efficiently makes use of its resources by filtering or controlling ...
Baoning Niu, Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Randy H...
In data integration systems, queries posed to a mediator need to be translated into a sequence of queries to the underlying data sources. In a heterogeneous environment, with sour...
Ramana Yerneni, Chen Li, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Hector...
— Path planning algorithms that incorporate risk and uncertainty need to be able to predict the evolution of pathfollowing error statistics for each candidate plan. We present an...
This paper introduces decision-theoretic planning techniques into automatic music generation. Markov decision processes (MDPs) are a mathematical model of planning under uncertain...
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs in soft real-time systems, where the utility of completing each job decreases over time. We present a utility-based framework fo...