Millions of containers are stowed every week with goods worth billions of dollars, but container vessel stowage is an all but neglected combinatorial optimization problem. In this ...
This paper studies the problem of real time yard crane dispatching in container terminals. Many technologies, including transponders, RFID and GPS have been used in the container ...
Xi Guo, Shell-Ying Huang, Wen-Jing Hsu, Malcolm Yo...
The wide adoption of XML has increased the interest of the database community on tree-structured data management techniques. Querying capabilities are provided through tree-patter...
Numerous approaches have been proposed to address the overwhelming modeling problems that result from the emergence of magnetic coupling as a dominant performance factor for ICs a...
Abstract. We study containment of conjunctive queries that are evaluated over databases that may contain tuples with null values. We assume the semantics of SQL for single block qu...