We revisit the classical chase procedure, studying its properties as well as its applicability to standard database problems. We settle (in the negative) the open problem of decid...
The join operation, which combines tuples from multiple relations, is the most fundamental and, typically, the most expensive operation in database queries. The standard approach t...
Benjamin J. McMahan, Guoqiang Pan, Patrick Porter,...
With the advent of deep sub-micron (DSM) era, floorplanning has become increasingly important in physical design process. In this paper we clarify a misunderstanding in using Lag...
Relative fitness, or “evaluation by tests” is one of the building blocks of coevolution: the only fitness information available is a comparison with other individuals in a p...
Object-oriented and object-relational databases(OODB) need to be able to load the vast quantities of data that OODB users bring to them. Loading OODB datais significantly more com...