This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of BORG, a self-optimizing storage system that performs automatic block reorganization based on the observed I/O wor...
Medha Bhadkamkar, Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Sam B...
The covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMAES) has proven to be a powerful method for reinforcement learning (RL). Recently, the CMA-ES has been augmented with an ada...
We address several challenges for applying statistical dialog managers based on Partially Observable Markov Models to real world problems: to deal with large numbers of concepts, ...
Sebastian Varges, Giuseppe Riccardi, Silvia Quarte...
Correctly generating a structured query (e.g., an XQuery or a SQL query) requires the user to have a full understanding of the database schema, which can be a daunting task. Alter...
Abstract. Caching data reduces user-perceived latency and often enhances availability in case of server crashes or network failures. DB caching aims at local processing of declarat...