We study recommendations in applications where there are temporal patterns in the way items are consumed or watched. For example, a student who has taken the Advanced Algorithms c...
Aditya G. Parameswaran, Georgia Koutrika, Benjamin...
Crowding is a technique used in genetic algorithms to preserve diversity in the population and to prevent premature convergence to local optima. It consists of pairing each offsp...
We performed an empirical study to characterize factors that affect which bugs get fixed in Windows Vista and Windows 7, focusing on factors related to bug report edits and relat...
Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagap...
Abstract— We consider the simplest model for controlling the rotation of a molecule by the action of an electric field, namely a quantum planar pendulum. This problem consists i...
Ugo V. Boscain, Thomas Chambrion, Paolo Mason, Mar...
: Cost-based optimizers in relational databases make use of data statistics to estimate intermediate result cardinalities. Those cardinalities are needed to estimate access plan co...