Data-layout optimizations rearrange fields within objects, objects within objects, and objects within the heap, with the goal of increasing spatial locality. While the importance ...
Planning for numeric goals is an important problem. Only one of the many participants from the 2002 international planning competition (Metric-FF) can effectively handle problems ...
An ant colony optimization (ACO) approach for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is presented. Several new features that are interesting for ACO in general...
A join-index is a data structure used for processing join queries in databases. Join-indices use precomputation techniques to speed up online query processing and are useful for da...
Recognition technologies such as speech recognition and optical recognition are still, by themselves. not reliable enough for many practical uses in user interfaces However, by co...