The paper investigates the characterisation of vague concepts within the framework of modal logic. This work builds on the supervaluation approach of Fine and exploits the idea of...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). We present here a nu...
Twig pattern matching (TPM) is the core operation of XML query processing. Existing approaches rely on either efficient data structures or novel labeling/indexing schemes to reduce...
PUB (Paderborn University BSPLib) is a C library supporting the development of Bulk-Synchronous Parallel (BSP) algorithms. The BSP model allows an estimation of the execution time...
This paper presents a mathematical framework to exploit the semantic properties of matrix operations in loop-based numerical codes. The heart of this framework is an algebraic lan...