: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
Abstract. Future database application systems will be designed as Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs), in contrast to today’s monolithic architectures. The decomposition in man...
Daniel Gmach, Stefan Krompass, Stefan Seltzsam, Ma...
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are very commonly used as function optimizers, basically due to their search capability. A number of different serial and parallel versions of GA exist. ...
Constructive Induction is the process of transforming the original representation of hard concepts with complex interaction into a representation that highlights regularities. Mos...
In this paper, XfaceEd, our open source, platform independent tool for authoring 3D embodied conversational agents (ECAs) is presented. Following MPEG-4 Facial Animation (FA) stan...