Relational databases have had great industrial success in computer science, their power evidenced by theoretical analysis and widespread adoption. Often, automated theorem provers...
Precedence constraints play a crucial role in planning and scheduling problems. Many real-life problems also include dependency constraints expressing logical relations between the...
Keywords, restricted vocabularies (RVs), thesauri, and catalogues are introduced leading up to discussion of the need for full ontologies to describe the full logical and relation...
This paper describes SKIMA, a mediation system that gives transparent access to heterogeneous and distributed sources considering their semantics and the semantics of application ...
Abstract Although e-commerce is becoming popular, product rules, which describe various conditions such as prices, applicability, and discount conditions are still expressed in nat...