String kernels which compare the set of all common substrings between two given strings have recently been proposed by Vishwanathan & Smola (2004). Surprisingly, these kernels...
The distributed nature of the grid results in the problem of scheduling parallel jobs produced by several independent organizations that have partial control over the system. We co...
In a mobile computing system, users carrying portable devices can access database services from any location without requiring a fixed position in the networking environment. Some ...
In this paper we consider the problem of scheduling n jobs on a single machine, where the jobs are processed in batches and the processing time of each job is a step function depe...
M. S. Barketau, T. C. Edwin Cheng, C. T. Ng, Vladi...
The problem of rewriting queries using views has received significant attention because of its applications in a wide variety of datamanagement problems. For select-project-join SQ...
Foto N. Afrati, Rada Chirkova, Manolis Gergatsouli...