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VLDB
2001
ACM
104views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
16 years 6 months ago
Global transaction support for workflow management systems: from formal specification to practical implementation
In this paper, we present an approach to global transactionmanagementinworkflowenvironments.Thetransaction mechanism is based on the well-known notion of compensation, but extended...
Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Jochem Vonk, Peter M. G. Ape...
VLDB
2004
ACM
144views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
16 years 6 months ago
Preserving mapping consistency under schema changes
Abstract. In dynamic environments like the Web, data sources may change not only their data but also their schemas, their semantics, and their query capabilities.When a mapping is ...
Yannis Velegrakis, Renée J. Miller, Lucian Popa
POPL
2010
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Threesomes, With and Without Blame
Abstract. The blame calculus of Wadler and Findler gives a high-level semantics to casts in higher-order languages. The coercion calculus of Henglein, on the other hand, provides a...
Jeremy G. Siek, Philip Wadler
PADL
2010
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Implementing Query Answering for Hybrid MKNF Knowledge Bases
Abstract. Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rule...
Ana Sofia Gomes, José Júlio Alferes,...
CIVR
2009
Springer
221views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Movie segmentation into scenes and chapters using locally weighted bag of visual words
Movies segmentation into semantically correlated units is a quite tedious task due to ”semantic gap”. Low-level features do not provide useful information about the semantical...
Vasileios Chasanis, Argyris Kalogeratos, Aristidis...