The I/O performance of query processing can be improved using two complementary approaches. One can try to improve on the buffer and the file system management policies of the DB ...
In multi-task learning several related tasks are considered simultaneously, with the hope that by an appropriate sharing of information across tasks, each task may benefit from th...
In order to index text fields in XML databases for similarity queries, M-Trees may be applied. However, some datasets experiments using M-Trees for this purpose resulted in low qu...
Molecular sequence megaclassification is a technique for automated protein sequence analysis and annotation. Implementation of the method has been limited by the need to store and...
In open, dynamic multi-agent systems, agents may form short-term ad-hoc groups, such as coalitions, in order to meet their goals. Trust and reputation are crucial concepts in thes...