We study functional and multivalued dependencies over SQL tables with NOT NULL constraints. Under a no-information interpretation of null values we develop tools for reasoning. We...
Abstract--Reservation Tables (RTs) have long been used to detect conflicts between operations that simultaneously access the same architectural resource. Traditionally, these RTs h...
Peter Grun, Ashok Halambi, Nikil D. Dutt, Alexandr...
Methods for computing the least common subsumer (lcs) are usually restricted to rather inexpressive Description Logics (DLs) whereas existing knowledge bases are written in very e...
We revisit the issue of epistemological and semantic foundations for autoepistemic and default logics, two leading formalisms in nonmonotonic reasoning. We develop a general seman...
Marc Denecker, Victor W. Marek, Miroslaw Truszczyn...
To ensure the re-use of domain ontologies the usual approach relies on a pivot language, e.g., Kif, intoandfromwhich the domainontologyis translated. This requires several distinc...