Recently the class of BPA (or context-free) processes has been intensively studied and bisimilarity and regularity appeared to be decidable (see [CHS95, BCS95, BCS96]). We extend t...
XQuery is a powerful functional language to query XML data. This paper presents a bidirectional interpretation of XQuery to address the problem of updating XML data through materi...
Combinatorial auctions, that is, auctions where bidders can bid on combinations of items, tend to lead to more efficient allocations than traditional auction mechanisms in multi-i...
Decidability of non-structural subtype entailment is a long standing open problem in programming language theory. In this paper, we apply automata theoretic methods to characterize...
Synchronous tree substitution grammars are a translation model that is used in syntax-based machine translation. They are investigated in a formal setting and compared to a compet...