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BIOSTEC
2008
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Representing and Reasoning with Temporal Constraints in Clinical Trials Using Semantic Technologies
Clinical trial protocols include schedule of clinical trial activities such as clinical tests, procedures, and medications. The schedule specifies temporal constraints on the seque...
Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O'Co...
AI
2005
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Knowledge updates: Semantics and complexity issues
We consider the problem of how an agent's knowledge can be updated. We propose a formal method of knowledge update on the basis of the semantics of modal logic S5. In our met...
Chitta Baral, Yan Zhang
COMAD
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Semantics and Speculation for Improving the Performance of Read-only Transactions
A read-only transaction (ROT) does not modify any data. Efforts are being made in the literature to improve the performance of ROTs without correctness and data currency issues. T...
Thirumalaisamy Ragunathan, P. Krishna Reddy
ICDE
2000
IEEE
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16 years 8 months ago
An Algebraic Compression Framework for Query Results
Decision-support applications in emerging environments require that SQL query results or intermediate results be shipped to clients for further analysis and presentation. These cl...
Zhiyuan Chen, Praveen Seshadri
OSDI
2002
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Ivy: A Read/Write Peer-to-Peer File System
Ivy is a multi-user read/write peer-to-peer file system. Ivy has no centralized or dedicated components, and it provides useful integrity properties without requiring users to ful...
Athicha Muthitacharoen, Robert Morris, Thomer M. G...