We consider the problem of actively learning the mean values of distributions associated with a finite number of options. The decision maker can select which option to generate t...
Hyperlinks are an essential feature of the World Wide Web, highly responsible for its success. XLink improves on HTML’s linking capabilities in several ways. In particular, link...
Commodity hardware and software are growing increasingly more complex, with advances such as chip heterogeneity and specialization, deeper memory hierarchies, ne-grained power ma...
Abstract. Estimating the sizes of query results, and intermediate results, is crucial to many aspects of query processing. In particular, it is necessary for effective query optimi...
—Many sensing systems remotely monitor/measure an environment at several sites, and then report these observations to a central site. We propose and investigate several practical...