This article argues for the growing importance of quality metadata and the equation of that quality with precision and semantic grounding. Such semantic grounding requires metadat...
In a recent paper, Martens et al. introduced a specification mechanism for XML tree languages, based on rules of the form r s, where r, s are regular expressions. Sets of such ru...
The ability to flexibly compose confidence computation with the operations of relational algebra is an important feature of probabilistic database query languages. Computing confi...
In main-memory databases, the number of processor cache misses has a critical impact on the performance of the system. Cacheconscious indices are designed to improve performance b...
We propose and study algorithms for computing minimal models, stable models and answer sets of 2- and 3-CNF theories, and normal and disjunctive 2- and 3-programs. We are especiall...