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CP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Using SAT in QBF
QBF is the problem of deciding the satisfiability of quantified boolean formulae in which variables can be either universally or existentially quantified. QBF generalizes SAT (S...
Horst Samulowitz, Fahiem Bacchus
FOCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Complexity of Acyclic Conjunctive Queries
This paper deals with the evaluation of acyclic Boolean conjunctive queries in relational databases. By well-known results of Yannakakis [1981], this problem is solvable in polynom...
Georg Gottlob, Nicola Leone, Francesco Scarcello
SIAMJO
2010
83views more  SIAMJO 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
The Lifted Newton Method and Its Application in Optimization
Abstract. We present a new “lifting” approach for the solution of nonlinear optimization problems (NLPs) that have objective and constraint functions with intermediate variable...
Jan Albersmeyer, Moritz Diehl
KDD
2007
ACM
177views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Mining optimal decision trees from itemset lattices
We present DL8, an exact algorithm for finding a decision tree that optimizes a ranking function under size, depth, accuracy and leaf constraints. Because the discovery of optimal...
Élisa Fromont, Siegfried Nijssen
CORR
2008
Springer
153views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A Truthful Mechanism for Offline Ad Slot Scheduling
We consider the Offline Ad Slot Scheduling problem, where advertisers must be scheduled to sponsored search slots during a given period of time. Advertisers specify a budget constr...
Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan, Evdokia Nikolova, M...