The rich dependency structure found in the columns of real-world relational databases can be exploited to great advantage, but can also cause query optimizers--which usually assum...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul B...
Enforced hill-climbing is an effective deterministic hillclimbing technique that deals with local optima using breadth-first search (a process called "basin flooding"). ...
Reinforcement learning deals with learning optimal or near optimal policies while interacting with the environment. Application domains with many continuous variables are difficul...
Map-Reduce is a programming model that enables easy development of scalable parallel applications to process vast amounts of data on large clusters of commodity machines. Through ...
Hung-chih Yang, Ali Dasdan, Ruey-Lung Hsiao, Dougl...
We introduce fitnessless coevolution (FC), a novel method of comparative one-population coevolution. FC plays games between individuals to settle tournaments in the selection pha...
Wojciech Jaskowski, Krzysztof Krawiec, Bartosz Wie...