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PODS
2006
ACM
88views Database» more  PODS 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Structural characterizations of the semantics of XPath as navigation tool on a document
Given a document D in the form of an unordered labeled tree, we study the expressibility on D of various fragments of XPath, the core navigational language on XML documents. We gi...
Marc Gyssens, Jan Paredaens, Dirk Van Gucht, Georg...
STOC
2010
ACM
216views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
16 years 3 months ago
The HOM problem is decidable
We close affirmatively a question which has been open for long time: decidability of the HOM problem. The HOM problem consists in determining, given a tree homomorphism D and a re...
Guillem Godoy, Omer Giménez, Lander Ramos and Car...
WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Generalized distances between rankings
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
Ravi Kumar, Sergei Vassilvitskii
STACS
2010
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Evasiveness and the Distribution of Prime Numbers
Abstract. A Boolean function on N variables is called evasive if its decision-tree complexity is N. A sequence Bn of Boolean functions is eventually evasive if Bn is evasive for al...
László Babai, Anandam Banerjee, Ragh...
PODC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Fast scalable deterministic consensus for crash failures
We study communication complexity of consensus in synchronous message-passing systems with processes prone to crashes. The goal in the consensus problem is to have all the nonfaul...
Bogdan S. Chlebus, Dariusz R. Kowalski, Michal Str...