This paper presents a principled framework for efficient processing of ad-hoc top-k (ranking) aggregate queries, which provide the k groups with the highest aggregates as results....
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas
Satellite domains are becoming a fashionable area of research within the AI community due to the complexity of the problems that these domains need to solve. With the current US a...
For newly designed or transformed business processes, accurately predicting business performances such as costs and customer services before actual deployment is very important. W...
Decision-support applications in emerging environments require that SQL query results or intermediate results be shipped to clients for further analysis and presentation. These cl...
Landmarks for a planning problem are subgoals that are necessarily made true at some point in the execution of any plan. Since verifying that a fact is a landmark is PSPACE-complet...