Monte Carlo methods and their subsequent simulated annealing are able to minimize general energy functions. However, the slow convergence of simulated annealing compared with more ...
Modern database applications including computer-aided design, multimedia information systems, medical imaging, molecular biology, or geographical information systems impose new re...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
Reachability queries on large directed graphs have attracted much attention recently. The existing work either uses spanning structures, such as chains or trees, to compress the c...
XML has become the standard format for data representation and exchange in domains ranging from Web to desktop applications. However, wide adoption of XML is hindered by inefficien...