In the software industry, designers are forever trying to “improve” their products by adding ever more features to them, producing bloated software systems that are capable of...
Our current concern is a scalable infrastructure for information retrieval (IR) with up-to-date retrieval results in the presence of frequent, continuous updates. Timely processin...
Nowadays, people start to accept fuzzy rule–based systems as flexible and convenient tools to solve a myriad of ill–defined but otherwise (for humans) straightforward tasks s...
Bulk loading refers to the process of creating an index from scratch for a given data set. This problem is well understood for B-trees, but so far, non-traditional index structure...
Multicellular organisms create complex patterned structures from identical, unreliable components. Learning how to engineer such robust behavior is important to both an improved un...