Parallel database systems have to support the effective parallelization of complex queries in multi-user mode, i.e. in combination with inter-query/inter-transaction parallelism. ...
Though partially automated, developing schema mappings remains a complex and potentially error-prone task. In this paper, we present TRAMP (TRAnsformation Mapping Provenance), an ...
Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users’ search queries via an auction. Advertisers have to solve a complex optimization problem of how to place bids o...
We study definability and complexity issues for automatic and ω-automatic structures. These are, in general, infinite structures but they can be finitely presented by a collec...
Abstract. With increasing volumes of data, much effort has been devoted to finding the most suitable answer to an information need. However, in many domains, the question whether a...