We study visibly pushdown automata (VPA) models for expressing and evaluating queries, expressed using MSO formulas, on words with a nesting structure (like XML documents). We deļ...
ā We study the problem of reliably provisioning trafļ¬c in high-capacity backbone mesh networks supporting virtual concatenation (VCAT). VCAT enables a connection to be inversel...
Ananya Das, Charles U. Martel, Biswanath Mukherjee...
Abstract. We examine the problem of detecting nested temporal predicates given the execution trace of a distributed program. We present a technique that allows eļ¬cient detection ...
In standard property testing, the task is to distinguish between objects that have a property P and those that are ε-far from P, for some ε > 0. In this setting, it is perfec...
Nir Ailon, Bernard Chazelle, Seshadhri Comandur, D...
Motivated by several applications, we introduce various distance measures between ātop k lists.ā Some of these distance measures are metrics, while others are not. For each of...