Despite the importance of ranked queries in numerous applications involving multi-criteria decision making, they are not efficiently supported by traditional database systems. In ...
We present the first complete translation of XPath into an algebra, paving the way for a comprehensive, state-of-theart XPath (and later on, XQuery) compiler based on algebraic op...
Matthias Brantner, Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kan...
Referring to the query complexity of property testing, we prove the existence of a rich hierarchy of corresponding complexity classes. That is, for any relevant function q, we prov...
Oded Goldreich, Michael Krivelevich, Ilan Newman, ...
—A new parallel programming framework for DNA sequence alignment in homogeneous multi-core processor architectures is proposed. Contrasting with traditional coarse-grained parall...
Tiago Jose Barreiros Martins de Almeida, Nuno Fili...
Computational experiments have become an integral part of the scientific method, but reproducing, archiving, and querying them is still a challenge. The first barrier to a wider...