The complement cascade is a biochemical process in the blood that helps or 'complements' cells of the immune system to eliminate invading pathogens. When activated by one of three pathways, a cascade ...

Abstract: We introduce a unifying framework for proving that predicate P is hard-core for a one-way function f, and apply it to a broad family of functions and predicates, reproving old results in an ...

Predicate pushdown is a widely adopted query optimization. Existing systems and prior work mostly use pattern-matching rules to decide when a predicate can be pushed through certain operators like ...

This software implements fast and guaranteed floating point geometric predicates, including novel indirect predicates as described in the following article: M. Attene. Indirect Predicates for ...

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