In recent years it has been argued that when XML encodings become complex, DOM trees are no longer adequate for query processing. Alternative representations of XML documents, suc...
Much work has been done on characterizing the workload of a database system. Previous studies focused on providing different types of statistical summaries, and modeling the run-ti...
Many decision problems can be modelled as adversarial constraint satisfaction, which allows us to integrate methods from AI game playing. In particular, by using the idea of oppone...
To date, the majority of Web search engines have provided simple keyword search interfaces that present the results as a ranked list of hyperlinks. More recently researchers have b...
Abstract. Function evaluation is at the core of many compute-intensive applications which perform well on reconfigurable platforms. Yet, in order to implement function evaluation ...
Dong-U Lee, Oskar Mencer, David J. Pearce, Wayne L...