The relational data model is based on sets of tuples, i.e. it does not allow duplicate tuples in a relation. Many database languages and systems do require multi-set place, the hi...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is fast becoming a prevalent tool in tracking commodities in supply chain management applications. The movement of commodities thr...
Model-driven performance prediction methods require detailed design models to evaluate the performance of software systems during early development stages. However, the complexity...
We show that for most complexity classes of interest, all sets complete under rstorder projections (fops) are isomorphic under rst-order isomorphisms. That is, a very restricted v...
Assuming the Unique Games Conjecture (UGC), we show optimal inapproximability results for two classic scheduling problems. We obtain a hardness of 2 − ε for the problem of mini...