Query optimizers in current database systems are designed to pick a single efficient plan for a given query based on current statistical properties of the data. However, different...
Pedro Bizarro, Shivnath Babu, David J. DeWitt, Jen...
Traditionally, clock network layout is performed after cell placement. Such methodology is facing a serious problem in nanometer IC designs where people tend to use huge clock buff...
We study how to find plans that maximize the expected total utility for a given MDP, a planning objective that is important for decision making in high-stakes domains. The optimal...
hsp and hspr are two recent planners that search the state-space using an heuristic function extracted from Strips encodings. hsp does a forward search from the initial state reco...
Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have become nearly ubiquitous as a means of interacting with software systems. GUIs are typically highly complex pieces of software, and testing t...