Many activities may be characterized by a sequence of key frames that are related to important changes in motion rather than dominant characteristics that persist over a long seque...
Relational database systems may be turned into efficient XML and XPath processors if the system is provided with a suitable relational tree encoding. This paper extends this relat...
Robertson and Seymour (1990) proved that graphs of bounded tree-width are well-quasi-ordered by the graph minor relation. By extending their arguments, Geelen, Gerards, and Whittle...
Comprehending action preconditions and effects is an essential step in modeling the dynamics of the world. In this paper, we express the semantics of precondition relations extrac...
S. R. K. Branavan, Nate Kushman, Tao Lei, Regina B...
We have developed a system to process database queries over composed data providing web services. The queries are transformed into execution plans containing an operator that invok...