The era of distributed systems is upon us. Middlewarespecific concerns, and especially the distribution concern, which is the core of any middleware-mediated application, are addr...
To select some "valuable" views for materialization is an essential challenge in OLAP system design. Several techniques proposed previously are not very scalable for syst...
Abstract A rich family of generic Information Extraction (IE) techniques have been developed by researchers nowadays. This paper proposes WebKER, a system for automatically extract...
Converged fabrics that support data, storage, and cluster networking in a unified fashion are desirable for their cost and manageability advantages. Recent trends towards higher-b...
Kevin Leigh, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Jaspal Sub...
This paper investigates reinforcement learning (RL) in XCS. First, it formally shows that XCS implements a method of generalized RL based on linear approximators, in which the usu...