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SIGMOD
1996
ACM
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Cost-Based Optimization for Magic: Algebra and Implementation
Magic sets rewriting is a well-known optimization heuristic for complex decision-support queries. There can be many variants of this rewriting even for a single query, which diffe...
Praveen Seshadri, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Hamid Pir...
DBPL
1993
Springer
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Some Properties of Query Languages for Bags
In this paper we study the expressive power of query languages for nested bags. We de ne the ambient bag language by generalizing the constructs of the relational language of Brea...
Leonid Libkin, Limsoon Wong
LCC
1994
248views Algorithms» more  LCC 1994»
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Comparing the Power of Monadic NP Games
The descriptive complexity of a problem is the complexity of describing the problem in some logical formalism. One of the few techniques for proving separation results in descripti...
Ronald Fagin
NIPS
2007
13 years 10 months ago
An Analysis of Convex Relaxations for MAP Estimation
The problem of obtaining the maximum a posteriori estimate of a general discrete random field (i.e. a random field defined using a finite and discrete set of labels) is known ...
Pawan Mudigonda, Vladimir Kolmogorov, Philip H. S....
CORR
2006
Springer
108views Education» more  CORR 2006»
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Two polygraphic presentations of Petri nets
: This document gives an algebraic and two polygraphic translations of Petri nets, all three providing an easier way to describe reductions and to identify some of them. The first ...
Yves Guiraud