We describe three applications in computational learning theory of techniques and ideas recently introduced in the study of parameterized computational complexity. (1) Using param...
Rodney G. Downey, Patricia A. Evans, Michael R. Fe...
Kolaitis and Vardi pointed out that constraint satisfaction and conjunctive query containment are essentially the same problem. We study the Boolean conjunctive queries under a mor...
Michael Bauland, Philippe Chapdelaine, Nadia Creig...
Building upon the known generalized-quantifier-based first-order characterization of LOGCFL, we lay the groundwork for a deeper investigation. Specifically, we examine subclass...
Clemens Lautemann, Pierre McKenzie, Thomas Schwent...
The stable marriage problem is a well-known problem of matching men to women so that no man and woman who are not married to each other both prefer each other. Such a problem has a...
Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent ...
We present the design, implementation and evaluation of an algorithm that checks audit logs for compliance with privacy and security policies. The algorithm, which we name reduce,...