Accessing data from numerous widely-distributed sources poses signi cant new challenges for query optimization and execution. Congestion and failures in the network can introduce ...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Anthony Toma...
It has long been recognized that users can have complex preferences on plans. Non-intrusive learning of such preferences by observing the plans executed by the user is an attracti...
Nan Li, William Cushing, Subbarao Kambhampati, Sun...
The problem of robust line planning requests for a set of origin-destination paths (lines) along with their traffic rates (frequencies) in an underlying railway network infrastruct...
Active networking is a powerful technology to insert new functionality into the networking. In this paper we look at how active networking technology can be used to customize netw...
Peter Steenkiste, Prashant R. Chandra, Jun Gao, Sy...
Abstract. Research on practical models of autonomous agents has largely focused on a procedural view of goal achievement. This allows for efficient implementations, but prevents an...