Abstract--Assuming that evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) mainly deals with set problems, one can identify three core questions in this area of research: (i) how to fo...
The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
Abstract. Social network analysis has attracted much attention in recent years. Community mining is one of the major directions in social network analysis. Most of the existing met...
Deng Cai, Zheng Shao, Xiaofei He, Xifeng Yan, Jiaw...
Abstract: We propose a framework for the specification of extensible database systems. A particular goal is to implement a software component for parsing and rule-based optimizatio...