—Node movement can be exploited to reduce the energy consumption of wireless network communication. The strategy consists in delaying communication until a mobile node moves clos...
Srijan Chakraborty, David K. Y. Yau, John C. S. Lu...
In main-memory databases, the number of processor cache misses has a critical impact on the performance of the system. Cacheconscious indices are designed to improve performance b...
In the classical load balancing or multiprocessor scheduling problem, we are given a sequence of jobs of varying sizes and are asked to assign each job to one of the m empty proce...
Traditional goal-oriented approaches to building intelligent agents only consider absolute satisfaction of goals. However, in continuous domains there may be many instances in whi...
XML parsing is generally known to have poor performance characteristics relative to transactional database processing. Yet, its potentially fatal impact on overall database perfor...