The problem of selecting nodes in unranked trees is the most basic querying problem for XML. We propose stepwise tree automata for querying unranked trees. Stepwise tree automata c...
Knowledge representation systems, including ones based on Description Logics (DLs), use explanation facilities to, among others, debug knowledge bases. Until now, such facilities w...
In this paper we consider the problem of the logical characterization of the notion of consistent answer in a relational database that may violate given integrity constraints. Thi...
Marcelo Arenas, Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Jan Chomicki
Pitts and Stark have proposed the -calculus as a language for investigating the interaction of unique name generation and higher-order functions. They developed a sound model base...
For a functional programming language with a lazy standard semantics, we define a strictness analysis by means of abstract interpretation. Using the information from the strictne...