Recursion represents an important addition to the SQL language. This work focuses on the optimization of linear requeries in SQL. To provide an abstract framework for discussion, ...
Boolean expression simplification is a well-known problem in the history of Computer Science. The problem of determining prime implicates from an arbitrary Boolean expression has...
Although speech and language processing techniques achieved a relative maturity during the last decade, designing a spoken dialogue system is still a tailoring task because of the ...
Object-oriented programs, when executed, produce a complex webs of objects and references between them, generally referred to as object graphs. These object graphs are difficult t...
This paper deals with the main problems that arise in the query translation process in dictionary-based Cross-lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR): translation selection, presence...