The main objective of this paper is to provide a granular computing based interpretation of rules representing two levels of knowledge. This is done by adopting and adapting the de...
In computing systems, trust is an expectation on the dynamic behavior of an agent; static analysis is a collection of techniques for establishing static bounds on the dynamic behav...
This paper proposes an extension to the XQuery language to solve the problem of positional grouping: that is, problems in which it is necessary to convert a flat sequence into a h...
Kuznetsov’s condition says that variables X and Y are independent when any product of bounded functions f(X) and g(Y) behaves in a certain way: the interval of expected values E...
We explore the relationship between time and relevance using TREC ad-hoc queries. A type of query is identified that favors very recent documents. We propose a time-based language...