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WEBDB
2004
Springer
154views Database» more  WEBDB 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Twig Query Processing over Graph-Structured XML Data
XML and semi-structured data is usually modeled using graph structures. Structural summaries, which have been proposed to speedup XML query processing have graph forms as well. Th...
Zografoula Vagena, Mirella Moura Moro, Vassilis J....
ER
2005
Springer
200views Database» more  ER 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
How to Tame a Very Large ER Diagram (Using Link Analysis and Force-Directed Drawing Algorithms)
Abstract. Understanding a large schema without the assistance of persons already familiar with it (and its associated applications), is a hard and very time consuming task that occ...
Yannis Tzitzikas, Jean-Luc Hainaut
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Representation of periodic moving objects in databases
In the real world, lots of objects with changing position can be found. Some of them repeat the same movement several times, called periodic movements. Examples include airplanes,...
Ralf Hartmut Güting, Thomas Behr, Victor Teix...
GECCO
2007
Springer
187views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 4 days ago
Defining implicit objective functions for design problems
In many design tasks it is difficult to explicitly define an objective function. This paper uses machine learning to derive an objective in a feature space based on selected examp...
Sean Hanna
CP
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Differentiable Invariants
Abstract. Invariants that incrementally maintain the value of expresder assignments to their variables are a natural abstraction to build high-level local search algorithms. But th...
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Laurent Michel