Fagin, Halpern, Moses, and Vardi have proposed a framework of epistemic agents with multiple “frames of mind” (local-reasoning structures), to solve problems concerning incons...
Nested iteration is an important technique for query evaluation. It is the default way of executing nested subqueries in SQL. Although decorrelation often results in cheaper non-n...
Ravindra Guravannavar, H. S. Ramanujam, S. Sudarsh...
The skyline operator is important for multicriteria decision making applications. Although many recent studies developed efficient methods to compute skyline objects in a specifi...
A Herbrand equality between expressions in a program is an equality which holds relative to the Herbrand interpretation of operators. We show that the problem of checking validity ...
System behaviors specify the major functions of domain specific Web Information Systems (WIS). Traditional techniques can not satisfy various requirements or manage innumerous data...