Kolaitis and Vardi pointed out that constraint satisfaction and conjunctive query containment are essentially the same problem. We study the Boolean conjunctive queries under a mor...
Michael Bauland, Philippe Chapdelaine, Nadia Creig...
Given a set of rectangles with fixed orientations, we want to find an enclosing rectangle of minimum area that contains them all with no overlap. Many simple scheduling tasks ca...
Schaefer's theorem is a complexity classification result for so-called Boolean constraint satisfaction problems: it states that every Boolean constraint satisfaction problem ...
This paper introduces the concept of letting an RDBMS Optimizer optimize its own environment. In our project, we have used the DB2 Optimizer to tackle the index selection problem,...
Gary Valentin, Michael Zuliani, Daniel C. Zilio, G...
The problem of online sampling of data, can be seen as a generalization of the classical secretary problem. The goal is to maximize the probability of picking the k highest scorin...