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...
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...
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...
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...
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...