Local search (LS) algorithms are among the most powerful techniques for solving computationally hard problems in combinatorial optimization. These algorithms could be viewed as &q...
Knowledge is recognized as a critical resource to gain and sustain competitive advantage in business. While many organizations are employing knowledge management (KM) initiatives,...
Distributed-memory programs are often written using a global address space: any process can name any memory location on any processor. Some languages completely hide the distincti...
SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...
Abstract. In [1], we presented a method for automatic detection of action items from natural conversation. This method relies on supervised classification techniques that are trai...