We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
One of the key strengths of the region connection calculus (RCC) -- its generality -- is also one of its most important drawbacks for practical applications. The semantics of all ...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Chris Cornelis...
We consider the following combinatorial problem: given a set of n objects (for example, disks in the plane, triangles), and an integer L ≥ 1, what is the size of the smallest su...
The application of synthesis of Petri nets from languages for practical problems has recently attracted increasing attention. However, the classical synthesis problems are often n...
Abstract. The node-weighted Steiner tree problem is a variation of classical Steiner minimum tree problem. Given a graph G = (V, E) with node weight function C : V → R+ and a sub...
Xianyue Li, Xiao-Hua Xu, Feng Zou, Hongwei Du, Pen...