Abstract— Developing a full-fledged cost-based XQuery optimizer is a fairly complex task. Nowadays, there is little knowledge concerning suitable cost formulae and optimization ...
Manufacturing companies that are expanding their product offering to cover also lifecycle services in the customers’ facilities are facing the increasing complexity and risk to ...
— The increasing availability of sensing devices has made the possibility of context-aware pervasive computing applications real. However, constructing this software requires ext...
—The Multicanonical Monte Carlo (MMC) technique is a new form of adaptive importance sampling (IS). Thanks to its blind adaptation algorithm, it does not require an in-depth syst...
Alberto Bononi, Leslie A. Rusch, Amirhossein Ghazi...
Training systems with intelligent virtual agents provide an effective means to train people for complex, dynamic tasks like crisis management or firefighting. Virtual agents pro...
Maaike Harbers, Karel van den Bosch, John-Jules Ch...