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ICDT
2009
ACM
175views Database» more  ICDT 2009»
16 years 5 months ago
Structural characterizations of schema-mapping languages
Schema mappings are declarative specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. In recent years, there has been an extensive study of schema mappings a...
Balder ten Cate, Phokion G. Kolaitis
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PODS
2009
ACM
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16 years 5 months ago
XML schema mappings
Relational schema mappings have been extensively studied in connection with data integration and exchange problems, but mappings between XML schemas have not received the same amo...
Shun'ichi Amano, Leonid Libkin, Filip Murlak
AGTIVE
2003
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Specifying Pointer Structures by Graph Reduction
Graph-reduction specifications (GRSs) are a powerful new method for specifying classes of pointer data structures (shapes). They cover important shapes, like various forms of bal...
Adam Bakewell, Detlef Plump, Colin Runciman
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COCO
2006
Springer
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15 years 8 months ago
Making Hard Problems Harder
We consider a general approach to the hoary problem of (im)proving circuit lower bounds. We define notions of hardness condensing and hardness extraction, in analogy to the corres...
Joshua Buresh-Oppenheim, Rahul Santhanam
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ECCC
2006
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15 years 4 months ago
Constraint satisfaction: a personal perspective
Attempts at classifying computational problems as polynomial time solvable, NP-complete, or belonging to a higher level in the polynomial hierarchy, face the difficulty of undecid...
Tomás Feder