— There is a growing interest among service providers to offer new services with Quality of Service (QoS) guaranties that are also resilient to failures. Supporting QoS connectio...
Dot maps--drawings of point sets--are a well known cartographic method to visualize density functions over an area. We study the problem of simplifying a given dot map: given a se...
Mark de Berg, Prosenjit Bose, Otfried Cheong, Pat ...
A predicate P : {−1, 1}k → {0, 1} can be associated with a constraint satisfaction problem Max CSP(P). P is called “approximation resistant” if Max CSP(P) cannot be approxi...
The National Airspace System (NAS) is designed to accommodate a large number of flights over North America. For purposes of workload limitations for air traffic controllers, the a...
Amitabh Basu, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Girishkumar S...
Query optimization in RDF Stores is a challenging problem as SPARQL queries typically contain many more joins than equivalent relational plans, and hence lead to a large join orde...