Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
To date, topology control in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks--the study of how to compute from the given communication network a subgraph with certain beneficial properties--h...
Thomas Moscibroda, Roger Wattenhofer, Aaron Zollin...
It is known that the composition of schema mappings, each specified by source-to-target tgds (st-tgds), can be specified by a secondorder tgd (SO tgd). We consider the question of...
Network traces are essential for a wide range of network applications, including traffic analysis, network measurement, performance monitoring, and security analysis. Existing cap...
Chia-Wei Chang, Alexandre Gerber, Bill Lin, Subhab...
The state of the art commercial query optimizers employ cost-based optimization and exploit dynamic programming (DP) to find the optimal query execution plan (QEP) without evalua...