Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). We present here a nu...
Twig pattern matching (TPM) is the core operation of XML query processing. Existing approaches rely on either efficient data structures or novel labeling/indexing schemes to reduce...
PUB (Paderborn University BSPLib) is a C library supporting the development of Bulk-Synchronous Parallel (BSP) algorithms. The BSP model allows an estimation of the execution time...
This paper presents a mathematical framework to exploit the semantic properties of matrix operations in loop-based numerical codes. The heart of this framework is an algebraic lan...
Abstract. In this paper we focus on the problem of integrating knowledge bases expressed in a description logic. To this end, we propose three basic operations: union, intersection...