Abstract. Unlike people, household robots cannot rely on commonsense knowledge when accomplishing everyday tasks. We believe that this is one of the reasons why they perform poorly...
In an important paper, Burer [2] recently showed how to reformulate general mixed-binary quadratic optimization problems (QPs) into copositive programs where a linear functional i...
This paper addresses the problem of explaining missing answers in queries that include selection, projection, join, union, aggregation and grouping (SPJUA). Explaining missing ans...
Refinement is the notion of development between formal specifications. For specifications given in a relational formalism, downward and upward simulations are the standard meth...
Many applications using cryptographic hash functions do not require collision resistance, but some kind of preimage resistance. That's also the reason why the widely used SHA-...