There has been a great deal of work in recent years on processing and optimizing queries against XML data. Typically in these previous works, schema information is not considered,...
Stelios Paparizos, Jignesh M. Patel, H. V. Jagadis...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is currently attracting enormous attention. In P2P systems a very large number of autonomous computing nodes (the peers) pool together their ...
The advent of Web services has made automated workflow composition relevant to Web based applications. One technique that has received some attention, for automatically composing ...
Prashant Doshi, Richard Goodwin, Rama Akkiraju, Ku...
Recent research in decision theoretic planning has focussedon making the solution of Markov decision processes (MDPs) more feasible. We develop a family of algorithms for structur...
Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman, Christopher W. ...
Simulation of dynamic complex systems—specifically, those comprised of large numbers of components with stochastic behaviors—for the purpose of probabilistic risk assessment f...