We describe an algorithm for estimating the number of page fetches for a partial or complete scan of a B-tree index. The algorithm obtains estimates for the number of page fetches ...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Inspired by AND/OR search spaces for graphical models recently introduced, we propose to augment Multi-Valued Decision Diagrams (MDD) with AND nodes, in order to capture function ...
Robert Mateescu, Rina Dechter, Radu Marinescu 0002
In this paper we present a tool for enhanced exploration of OLAP data that is adaptive to a user's prior knowledge of the data. The tool continuously keeps track of the parts...
Abstract. We study the provable security of identity-based (ID-based) key agreement protocols. Although several published protocols have been proven secure in the random oracle mod...