Case-based reasoning is a recent approach to problem solving and learning that has got a lot of attention over the last few years. Originating in the US, the basic idea and underlying theories have spread to other continents, and we are now within a period of highly active research in case

The evolution of microprocessor architecture depends upon the changing aspects of technology. As die density and speed increase, memory and program behavior become increasingly important in defining architecture tradeoffs. While technology enables increasingly complex processor implementations, there are physical and program behavior limits to the usefulness of this complexity. Physical limits include device limits as well as practical limits on power and cost. Program behavior limits result from unpredictable events occurring during execution. Architectures and implementations that span these limits are vital to the continued evolution of the microprocessor. Keywords: microprocessor architecture, scaling, memory wall, cache limits, program behavior limits. Successful microprocessor implementations depend upon the processosr architect's ability to predict trends and advances in both technology and user behavior. Selecting an approach for a microprocessor implementation depend...

These lecture notes review the basic properties of Lagrange multipliers and constraints in problems of optimization from the perspective of how they influence the setting up of a mathematical model and the solution technique that may be chosen. Conventional problem formulations with equality

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is now an acute issue in scienti c databases where it central to the validation of data. In this paper we discuss some of the technical issues that have emerged in an initial exploration of the topic. 1

of this conference: issues relating to intellectual property. Both to link the discussion to my old paper, and because my own recent research has been focused there, I shall focus particularly on the patenting of “science”. Finally, I will consider the institutional division of labor in research and development

this article, we discuss the fundamentals of distributed DBMS technology. We address the data distribution and architectural design issues as well as the algorithms that need to be implemented to provide the basic DBMS functions such as query processing, concurrency control, reliability

The basic issue concerning production in welfare economics is whether a market solution will yield the socially optimum kinds and quantities of commodities. It is well known that problems can arise for three broad reasons: distributive justice; external effects; and scale economies. This paper

Given two documents A and B we define two mathematical notions: their resemblance r(A, B)andtheircontainment c(A, B) that seem to capture well the informal notions of "roughly the same" and "roughly contained." The basic idea is to reduce these issues to set intersection

and anomalous behavior. When applying a given technique to a particular domain, these assumptions can be used as guidelines to assess the effectiveness of the technique in that domain. For each category, we provide a basic anomaly detection technique, and then show how the different existing techniques