Delegation is a foundational concept for understanding and engineering systems that interact and execute tasks autonomously. By extending recent work on tensed action logic, it be...
Abstract. Query reformulation techniques based on semantic knowledge have been used in two ways in database management systems, namely for query optimization and for data integrati...
Role-based access control is a standard mechanism in information systems. Based on the role a user has, certain information is kept from the user even if requested. For ontologies ...
We present a query answering technique based on notions and results from modal Correspondence Theory. It allows us to answer a wide family of conjunctive queries by polynomial redu...
Data mining focuses on the development of methods and algorithms for such tasks as classification, clustering, rule induction, and discovery of associations. In the database fiel...