Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). We present here a nu...
In this article, we present our efforts1 on realizing transformation independence in open, extensible, and highly distributed multimedia information The main focus is on the abstra...
- In real-time and goal-orienteddatabasesystems, the amountof memory assignedto queriesthat sort or join large relations may fluctuate due to contention from other higherpriority t...
Abstract. In this paper, we propose that the select operator in relational databases be adopted for incorporating evidence in Bayesian networks. This approach does not involve the ...
The TOWL language is a temporal ontology language built on top of OWL-DL that enables descriptions involving time and temporal aspects such as change and state transitions. Extendi...
Viorel Milea, Michael Mrissa, Kees van der Sluijs,...