Linearity tests are randomized algorithms which have oracle access to the truth table of some function f, and are supposed to distinguish between linear functions and functions whi...
Since the birth of XML, the processing of XML query languages like XQuery/XQueryP has been widely researched in the academic and industrial communities. Most of the approaches con...
: Skyline Queries have recently received a lot of attention due to their intuitive query capabilities. Following the concept of Pareto optimality all `best' database objects a...
We determine the complexity of learning problems for unary regular languages. We begin by investigating the minimum consistent dfa (resp. nfa) problem which is known not to be app...
Term-weighting functions derived from various models of retrieval aim to model human notions of relevance more accurately. However, there is a lack of analysis of the sources of e...