This paper presents techniques for analyzing channel contract specifications in Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system. A channel contract is a state machine that sp...
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Answer set programs with time predicates are useful to model systems whose properties depend on time, like for example gene regulatory networks. A state of such a system at time po...
Timur Fayruzov, Jeroen Janssen, Dirk Vermeir, Chri...
In the rank join problem, we are given a set of relations and a scoring function, and the goal is to return the join results with the top K scores. It is often the case in practic...
Traditionally, on-line problems have been studied under the assumption that there is a unique sequence of requests that must be served. This approach is common to most general mod...
Esteban Feuerstein, Steven S. Seiden, Alejandro St...