The join operation, which combines tuples from multiple relations, is the most fundamental and, typically, the most expensive operation in database queries. The standard approach t...
Benjamin J. McMahan, Guoqiang Pan, Patrick Porter,...
We integrate a logic programming language into Meta-S, a flexible and extendable constraint solver cooperation system, by treating resolution as constraint solver. This new approac...
Stephan Frank, Petra Hofstedt, Peter Pepper, Dirk ...
Starting from the logical description of gene regulatory networks developed by R. Thomas, we introduce an enhanced modelling approach based on timed automata. We obtain a refined ...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is critical to the success of a business. Recent work in CRM has focused on the mining of customer-related data and the construction of cust...
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Wesley C. W. Chan, Gary K. W. ...