A repository is a shareddatabaseof information aboutengineeredartifacts.Wedefinea repository manager to be a databaseapplication that suPports checkout/checkin, version and config...
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
MapBase is a laboratory information system that has been supporting a high-throughput genome-mapping operation for the last three years. We chose to build MapBase around a C++-bas...
Although the C-based interpreter of Python is reasonably fast, implementations on the CLI or the JVM platforms offers some advantages in terms of robustness and interoperability. ...
Davide Ancona, Massimo Ancona, Antonio Cuni, Nicho...
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...