We introduce tractable classes of VCSP instances based on convex cost functions. Firstly, we show that the class of VCSP instances satisfying the hierarchically nested convexity pr...
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Searching for similar objects (in terms of near and nearest neighbors) of a given query object from a large set is an essential task in many applications. Recent years have seen g...
Like Gao, Min Wang, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Sriram Pad...
: We propose in this article an object-oriented approach to rewriting queries using views. Our approach aims to mitigate certain limitations of existing query rewriting approaches....
In most distributed systems, naming of nodes for low-level communication leveragestopologicallocation(such as node addresses) and is independentof any application. In this paper, ...
John S. Heidemann, Fabio Silva, Chalermek Intanago...