Recently, several languages for web service composition have emerged (e.g., BPEL4WS and WSCI). The goal of these languages is to glue web services together in a process-oriented w...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M...
The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
1 In this article, we report our efforts in mining the information encoded as clickthrough data in the server logs to evaluate and monitor the relevance ranking quality of a commer...
Contemporary product design and process development is based on an iterative specify-evaluate-revise approach which is often time intensive and therein non-responsive to customer ...
Max Blair, Steven R. LeClair, Jeffrey V. Zweber, A...
Deep submicron effects drive the complication in designing chips, as well as in package designs and communications between package and board. As a result, the iterative interface d...