Heckerman (1993) defined causal independence in terms of a set of temporal conditional independence statements. These statements formalized certain types of causal interaction whe...
In this study, we argue that users participating in the design process will form the participation as a function of their professional role, but also as a function of their identi...
-- We estimate the availability, reliability, and mean transaction time (response time) for repairable database configurations, centralized or distributed, in which each service co...
Metric access methods (MAMs), such as the M-tree, are powerful index structures for supporting ty queries on metric spaces, which represent a common abstraction for those searchin...
The goal of this work is to study the asymptotic and finite sample properties of an estimator of a nonlinear regression function when errors are spatially correlated, and when the...