More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...
This chapter describes Hume: a functionally-based language for programming with bounded resource usage, including time and space properties. The purpose of the Hume language design...
Modern query optimizers select an efficient join ordering for a physical execution plan based essentially on the average join selectivity factors among the referenced tables. In ...
The aggregation of individuals’ preferences into a single group outcome is both well-studied and fundamental within decision theory. Historically, though, a pervasive simplifica...
Abstract. The intramolecular model for gene assembly in ciliates considers three operations, ld, hi, and dlad that can assemble any gene pattern through folding and recombination: ...
Tero Harju, Ion Petre, Vladimir Rogojin, Grzegorz ...