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Developing a labelled object-relational constraint database architecture for the projection operator
Current relational databases have been developed in order to improve the handling of
stored data, however, there are some types of information that have to be analysed for
which no suitable tools are available. These new types of data can be represented and treated
as constraints, allowing a set of data to be represented through equations, inequations
and Boolean combinations of both. To this end, constraint databases were defined and
some prototypes were developed. Since there are aspects that can be improved, we propose
a new architecture called labelled object-relational constraint database (LORCDB). This provides
more expressiveness, since the database is adapted in order to support more types of
data, instead of the data having to be adapted to the database. In this paper, the projection
operator of SQL is extended so that it works with linear and polynomial constraints and
variables of constraints. In order to optimize query evaluation efficiency, some strategies
and algorithms have been used to obtain an efficient query plan.
Most work on constraint databases uses spatiotemporal data as case studies. However,
this paper proposes model-based diagnosis since it is a highly potential research area,
and model-based diagnosis permits more complicated queries than spatiotemporal examples.
Our architecture permits the queries over constraints to be defined over different sets
of variables by using symbolic substitution and elimination of variables.Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología DPI2006-15476-C02-0
Can Computer Algebra be Liberated from its Algebraic Yoke ?
So far, the scope of computer algebra has been needlessly restricted to exact
algebraic methods. Its possible extension to approximate analytical methods is
discussed. The entangled roles of functional analysis and symbolic programming,
especially the functional and transformational paradigms, are put forward. In
the future, algebraic algorithms could constitute the core of extended symbolic
manipulation systems including primitives for symbolic approximations.Comment: 8 pages, 2-column presentation, 2 figure
Over-constrained Weierstrass iteration and the nearest consistent system
We propose a generalization of the Weierstrass iteration for over-constrained
systems of equations and we prove that the proposed method is the Gauss-Newton
iteration to find the nearest system which has at least common roots and
which is obtained via a perturbation of prescribed structure. In the univariate
case we show the connection of our method to the optimization problem
formulated by Karmarkar and Lakshman for the nearest GCD. In the multivariate
case we generalize the expressions of Karmarkar and Lakshman, and give
explicitly several iteration functions to compute the optimum.
The arithmetic complexity of the iterations is detailed
Real root finding for equivariant semi-algebraic systems
Let be a real closed field. We consider basic semi-algebraic sets defined
by -variate equations/inequalities of symmetric polynomials and an
equivariant family of polynomials, all of them of degree bounded by .
Such a semi-algebraic set is invariant by the action of the symmetric group. We
show that such a set is either empty or it contains a point with at most
distinct coordinates. Combining this geometric result with efficient algorithms
for real root finding (based on the critical point method), one can decide the
emptiness of basic semi-algebraic sets defined by polynomials of degree
in time . This improves the state-of-the-art which is exponential
in . When the variables are quantified and the
coefficients of the input system depend on parameters , one
also demonstrates that the corresponding one-block quantifier elimination
problem can be solved in time
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