We study and present our findings on two closely related problems on xpath rewriting using views when both the view and the query are tree patterns involving /,// and []. First, g...
Answering queries using views is a well-established technique in databases. In this context, two outstanding problems can be formulated. The first one consists in deciding whethe...
VLSI placement tools usually work in two steps: First, the cells that have to be placed are roughly spread out over the chip area ignoring disjointness (global placement). Then, i...
Built upon a shared wireless medium, wireless mesh network is particularly vulnerable to jamming attacks. The ability to recover from attacks and maintain an acceptable level of s...
The Verilog hardware description language has padding semantics that allow designers to write descriptions where wires of different bit widths can be interconnected. However, many ...
Cherif Salama, Gregory Malecha, Walid Taha, Jim Gr...