Relational index structures, as for instance the Relational Interval Tree or the Linear Quadtree, support efficient processing of queries on top of existing object-relational datab...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
In this paper we solve the problem of classifying chestnut plants according to their place of origin. We compare the results obtained by state of the art classifiers, among which,...
Targeted optimization of program segments can provide an additional program speedup over the highest default optimization level, such as -O3 in GCC. The key challenge is how to au...
Haiping Wu, Eunjung Park, Mihailo Kaplarevic, Ying...
Randomized search heuristics (e.g., evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing etc.) are very appealing to practitioners, they are easy to implement and usually provide good per...
In [Dague, 1993], a formal system ROM(K) involving four relations has been defined to reason with relative orders of magnitude. In this paper, problems of introducing quantitative...