We present a formal analysis of the database layout problem, i.e., the problem of determining how database objects such as tables and indexes are assigned to disk drives. Optimizin...
Abstract. We consider dynamic evaluation of algebraic functions (matrix multiplication, determinant, convolution, Fourier transform, etc.) in the model of Reif and Tate; i.e., if f...
Gudmund Skovbjerg Frandsen, Johan P. Hansen, Peter...
Abstract. A fundamental problem in computational biology is the determination of the correct species tree for a set of taxa given a set of possibly contradictory gene trees. In rec...
Michael R. Fellows, Michael T. Hallett, Ulrike Ste...
Given a set D = {d1, d2, ..., dD} of D strings of total length n, our task is to report the "most relevant" strings for a given query pattern P. This involves somewhat mo...
This paper considers two similar graph algorithms that work by repeatedly increasing "flow" along "augmenting paths": the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm for the maxi...
Brian C. Dean, Michel X. Goemans, Nicole Immorlica