Designing technical plants is a complex and demanding process. It has been shown that the optimization of the simple facility placement problem is already NP-hard. Optimization of...
An important class of queries is the LIKE predicate in SQL. In the absence of an index, LIKE queries are subject to performance degradation. The notion of indexing on substrings (...
The analysis of the amount of human resources required to complete a project is felt as a critical issue in any company of the electronics industry. In particular, early estimatin...
William Fornaciari, Fabio Salice, Daniele Paolo Sc...
1 The number and the size of spatial databases, e.g. for geomarketing, traffic control or environmental studies, are rapidly growing which results in an increasing need for spatial...
Martin Ester, Alexander Frommelt, Hans-Peter Krieg...
When autonomous agents decide on their bidding strategies in real world auctions, they have a number of concerns that go beyond the models that are normally analyzed in traditiona...