For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
Multiple sequence alignment is an important problem in computational biology. We study the Maximum Trace formulation introduced by Kececioglu [?]. We first phrase the problem in ...
Knut Reinert, Hans-Peter Lenhof, Petra Mutzel, Kur...
Relational data exchange deals with translating a relational database instance over some source schema into a relational database instance over some target schema, according to a ...
In this paper we study the expressive power of query languages for nested bags. We de ne the ambient bag language by generalizing the constructs of the relational language of Brea...
Levin introduced an average-case complexity measure, based on a notion of \polynomialon average," and de ned \average-case polynomial-time many-one reducibility" amongra...