: Statistics that accurately describe the distribution of data values in the columns of relational tables are essential for effective query optimization in a database management sy...
Alexander Behm, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Kesha...
Query optimizers rely on fast, high-quality estimates of result sizes in order to select between various join plans. Selfjoin sizes of relations provide bounds on the join size of...
Noga Alon, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Mario...
We address the problem of navigating from an initial node to a goal node by a group of agents in an unknown physical environment. In such environments mobile agents must physicall...
Background: Researchers in systems biology use network visualization to summarize the results of their analysis. Such networks often include unconnected components, which popular ...
Miha Stajdohar, Minca Mramor, Blaz Zupan, Janez De...
Rendering animations of scenes with deformable objects, camera motion, and complex illumination, including indirect lighting and arbitrary shading, is a long-standing challenge. P...