We consider a general approach to the hoary problem of (im)proving circuit lower bounds. We define notions of hardness condensing and hardness extraction, in analogy to the corres...
A new type of optimization, called predicate move-around, ia introduced. It is shown how this optimization `considerably improvea the efficiency of evaluating SQL queries that hav...
Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Yehoshua Sagi...
Abstract-- In battery driven portable applications, the minimization of energy, average power, peak power, and peak power differential are equally important to improve reliability ...
Fuzzy Logic has proved to be a very powerful technique in the discipline of system control. A Fuzzy Logic Controller is defined by a collection of fuzzy if-then rules and a set of...