—Association rules are useful for determining correlations between attributes of a relation and have applications in the marketing, financial, and retail sectors. Furthermore, op...
Most modern DBMS optimizers rely upon a cost model to choose the best query execution plan (QEP) for any given query. Cost estimates are heavily dependent upon the optimizer’s e...
Michael Stillger, Guy M. Lohman, Volker Markl, Mok...
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been applied with success to many numerical and combinatorial optimization problems in recent years. However, they often lose their effectivenes...
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) provide customers with predictable and secure network connections over a shared network. The recently proposed hose model for VPNs allows for great...
Amit Kumar, Rajeev Rastogi, Abraham Silberschatz, ...
Abstract— Memetic algorithms arise as very effective algorithms to obtain reliable and high accurate solutions for complex continuous optimization problems. Nowadays, high dimens...