Sciweavers

9842 search results - page 163 / 1969
» Problem complexity
Sort
View
BMCBI
2007
109views more  BMCBI 2007»
15 years 2 months ago
Computational RNA secondary structure design: empirical complexity and improved methods
Background: We investigate the empirical complexity of the RNA secondary structure design problem, that is, the scaling of the typical difficulty of the design task for various cl...
Rosalía Aguirre-Hernández, Holger H....
MFCS
1990
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
One-Way Functions in Complexity Theory
We introduce the notion of associative one-way functions and prove that they exist if and only if P 6= NP. As evidence of their utility, we present two novel protocols that apply ...
Alan L. Selman
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
127views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
16 years 2 months ago
A framework for processing complex document-centric XML with overlapping structures
The key of overlapping structures or concurrent markup hierarchies in XML encodings of documents is that markup in one hierarchy is not necessarily well-formed with respect to the...
Ionut Emil Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar
PODS
2007
ACM
171views Database» more  PODS 2007»
16 years 2 months ago
The complexity of reasoning about pattern-based XML schemas
In a recent paper, Martens et al. introduced a specification mechanism for XML tree languages, based on rules of the form r s, where r, s are regular expressions. Sets of such ru...
Gjergji Kasneci, Thomas Schwentick
94
Voted
PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Brief announcement: new bounds for the controller problem
The (M, W)-controller, originally studied by Afek, Awerbuch, Plotkin, and Saks, is a basic distributed tool that an abstraction for managing the consumption of a global resource i...
Yuval Emek, Amos Korman