Most database query optimizers use cost models to identify good query execution plans. Inaccuracies in the cost models can cause query optimizers to select poor plans. In this pap...
The latent class model or multivariate multinomial mixture is a powerful model for clustering discrete data. This model is expected to be useful to represent non-homogeneous popula...
Damien Tessier, Marc Schoenauer, Christophe Bierna...
In distributed scenarios the robustness of a reputation mechanism depends on the data available for computation. Especially in ad-hoc networks the amount of available data is rest...
For many years, meeting satisfaction has been a key outcome variable in experimental Group Support Systems (GSS) research. GSS research results on meeting satisfaction are conflic...
Robert O. Briggs, Gert-Jan de Vreede, Bruce A. Rei...
This paper investigates the problem of improving the performance of general state-of-the-art robot control systems by autonomously adapting them to specific tasks and environments...