A tuple t1 of relation R subsumes tuple t2 of R, with respect to a query Q if for every database, tuple t1 derives all, and possibly more, answers to query Q than derived by tuple ...
This paper describes the development of a sensor which performs parts inspection by measuring the inertial properties of the part. The sensor comprises a platform supported on a c...
When querying a temporal database, a user often makes certain semantic assumptions on stored temporal data. This paper formalizes and studies two types of semantic assumptions: po...
Claudio Bettini, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Elisa Bertino...
The goal of incremental cryptography is to design cryptographic algorithms with the property that having applied the algorithm to a document, it is possible to quickly update the ...
Operational semantics provide a simple, high-level and elegant means of specifying interpreters for programming languages. In natural semantics, a form of operational semantics, p...