To reason about geographical objects, it is not only necessary to have more or less complete information about where these objects are located in space, but also how they can chang...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
Abstract. In heterogeneous data warehousing environments, autonomous data sources are integrated into a materialised integrated database. The schemas of the data sources and the in...
Advanced typing, matching, and evaluation strategy features, as well as very general conditional rules, are routinely used in equational programming languages such as, for example...
SPKI/SDSI is a language for expressing distributed access control policy, derived from SPKI and SDSI. We provide a first-order logic (FOL) semantics for SDSI, and show that it ha...