Savings in the number of page accesses due to batching on sequential, tree-structured, and random files are well known and have been reported in the literature. This paper asserts that substantial savings can also be obtained in database organizations by batching the requests for records (in queries), and also by batching intermediate processing requests while traversing the database. A simple ...

Multi-hop networks have become popular network topologies in various emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Batched coding (BNC) is a solution to reliable communications such with packet loss. By grouping packets into small batches and restricting recoding the belonging same batch; BNC has much smaller computational storage requirements at intermediate nodes compared direct application...

We present a neural network collision checking heuristic, ClearanceNet, and planning algorithm, CN-RRT. ClearanceNet learns to predict separation distance (minimum between robot workspace) with respect workspace. CN-RRT then efficiently computes motion plan by leveraging three key features of ClearanceNet. First, explores the space expanding multiple nodes at same time, processing batches thous...

Recent deep learning (DL) models have moved beyond static network architectures to dynamic ones, handling data where the network structure changes every example, such as sequences of variable lengths, trees, and graphs. Existing dataflow-based programming models for DL—both static and dynamic declaration—either cannot readily express these dynamic models, or are inefficient due to repeated data...

Tabling is a technique that overcomes some limitations of traditional Prolog systems in dealing with redundant sub-computations and recursion. When tabling is combined with multithreading, we have the best of both worlds, since we can exploit the combination of higher declarative semantics with higher procedural control. To support this combination, the Yap Prolog system has, at engine level, m...

      Several plant extracts and phytoconstituents, despite having excellent bioactivity in vitro, demonstrate less or no in vivo actions due to their poor lipid solubility or improper molecular size or destruction in gut. Drug delivery system for polyphenolic phytoconstituents (phytosomes) was prepared by complexing polyphenolic phytoconstituents with phospholipid mainly phosphatidylcholine wh...

We study the one-dimensional range minimum query (RMQ) problem in the external memory model. We provide the first spaceoptimal solution to the batched static version of the problem. On an instance with N elements and Q queries, our solution takes Θ(sort(N + Q)) = Θ ( N+Q B logM/B N+Q B ) I/O complexity and O(N + Q) space, where M is the size of the main memory and B is the block size. This is a...

Tree-structured neural networks exploit valuable syntactic parse information as they interpret the meanings of sentences. However, they suffer from two key technical problems that make them slow and unwieldy for large-scale NLP tasks: they usually operate on parsed sentences and they do not directly support batched computation. We address these issues by introducing the Stack-augmented Parser-I...

Resource allocation has been recognised as an important topic for business process execution. In this paper, we focus on planning resources for a massive number of process instances to meet the process requirements and cater for rational utilisation of resources before execution. After a motivating example, we present a model for planning resources for process instances. Then we design a set of...