Commercial database systems expose query hints to address situations in which the optimizer chooses a poor plan for a given query. However, current query hints are not flexible eno...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Ravishankar Rama...
A new framework of privacy-preserving identity management for distributed e-Health systems is proposed. Utilizing a consumer-centric approach, the healthcare consumer maintains a ...
The recent upsurge in the interest in Semantic Web services and the high-profile projects such as the WSMO, OWLS, and SWSL, have drawn attention to the importance of logic-based ...
Many information systems store their objects in a relational database. If the object schema or the relational schema of an application can change often or in an independent way, it...
The event calculus is a logic programming formalism for representing events and their effects especially in database applications. This paper presents the use of the event calculus...