We revise the Volume Algorithm (VA) for linear programming and relate it to bundle methods. When first introduced, VA was presented as a subgradient-like method for solving the ori...
Laura Bahiense, Nelson Maculan, Claudia A. Sagasti...
This paper focuses on the support provided by NCL (Nested Context Language) to relate objects with imperative code content and declarative hypermedia-objects (objects with declara...
Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, Marcelo Ferreira Moren...
Abstract. We study containment of conjunctive queries that are evaluated over databases that may contain tuples with null values. We assume the semantics of SQL for single block qu...
Abstract. In this paper, we consider 0/1 databases and provide an alternative way of extracting knowledge from such databases using tiles. A tile is a region in the database consis...
Object-oriented databases are a recent and important development and many studies of them have been performed. These consider aspects such as data modeling, query languages, perfo...