— Complex ad hoc join queries over enterprise databases are commonly used by business data analysts to understand and analyze a variety of enterprise-wide processes. However, eff...
Xiaoyan Yang, Cecilia M. Procopiuc, Divesh Srivast...
Preferences in constraint problems are common but significant in many real world applications. In this paper, we extend our conditional and composite CSP (CCCSP) framework, managi...
We present a class of graphical models for directly representing the joint cumulative distribution function (CDF) of many random variables, called cumulative distribution networks...
Soft constraints based on semirings are a generalization of classical constraints, where tuples of variables' values in each soft constraint are uniquely associated to element...
An analysis method for specialization of imperative programs is described in this paper. This analysis is an inter-procedural data flow method operating on control flow graphs and...