This paper investigates the problem of estimating the value of probabilistic parameters needed for decision making in environments in which an agent, operating within a multi-agen...
Abstract. Dynamic fault trees (DFTs) are a versatile and common formalism to model and analyze the reliability of computer-based systems. This paper presents a formal semantics of ...
: Statistics that accurately describe the distribution of data values in the columns of relational tables are essential for effective query optimization in a database management sy...
Alexander Behm, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Kesha...
: This is a position paper on multi-tenant databases. As motivation, it first describes the emerging marketplace of hosted enterprise services and the importance of using multi-ten...
Web search engines consistently collect information about users interaction with the system: they record the query they issued, the URL of presented and selected documents along w...