In this work, we propose two high-level formalisms, Markov Decision Petri Nets (MDPNs) and Markov Decision Well-formed Nets (MDWNs), useful for the modeling and analysis of distrib...
Marco Beccuti, Giuliana Franceschinis, Serge Hadda...
Abstract. Representing human spatial knowledge has long been a challenging research area. The objective of this paper is to model a route description of human navigation where verb...
XML is fast becoming the standard format to store, exchange and publish over the web, and is getting embedded in applications. Two challenges in handling XML are its size (the XML...
Paolo Ferragina, Fabrizio Luccio, Giovanni Manzini...
— A key function for network traffic monitoring and analysis is the ability to perform aggregate queries over multiple data streams. Change detection is an important primitive w...
Robert T. Schweller, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen, Yan Gao...
Regular path queries are a way of declaratively expressing queries on graphs as regular-expression-like patterns that are matched against paths in the graph. There are two kinds o...
Yanhong A. Liu, Tom Rothamel, Fuxiang Yu, Scott D....