We outline an efficient ACID-compliant mechanism for structural inserts and deletes in relational XML document storage that uses a region based pre/size/level encoding (equivalent...
Each semiconductor technology generation brings us closer to the imminent processor architecture heat wall, with all its associated adverse effects on system performance and reliab...
Abstract. Emergence--macro-level effects from micro-level causes--is at the heart of the conflict between reductionism and functionalism. How can there be autonomous higher level l...
Historical linguistics aims at inferring the most likely language phylogenetic tree starting from information concerning the evolutionary relatedness of languages. The available i...
In this paper we present a new density estimation algorithm using mixtures of mixtures of Gaussians. The new algorithm overcomes the limitations of the popular Expectation Maximiza...