We present a method for reducing the treewidth of a graph while preserving all the minimal s−t separators. This technique turns out to be very useful in the design of parameteriz...
Databases may not satisfy integrity constraints (ICs) for several reasons. Nevertheless, in most of the cases an important part of the data is still consistent wrt certain desired...
The Polylog framework is designed to provide a language for efficiently automating complex queries of information represented in multiple formats. A Polylog program contains a set...
This paper provides a logical framework of negotiating agents who have capabilities of evaluating and building proposals. Given a proposal, an agent decides whether it is acceptabl...
Kelly-width is a parameter of directed graphs recently proposed by Hunter and Kreutzer as a directed analogue of treewidth. We give several alternative characterizations of direct...