Children want to find information about their world, but there are barriers to finding what they seek. Young people have varying abilities to formulate complex queries and compreh...
Allison Druin, Elizabeth Foss, Hilary Hutchinson, ...
In this paper we give a robust logical and computational characterisation of peer-to-peer (p2p) database systems. We first define a precise model-theoretic semantics of a p2p sys...
Enrico Franconi, Gabriel M. Kuper, Andrei Lopatenk...
We now know that the addition of a concept constructor called a Path Functional Dependency (PFD) to the Boolean-complete description logic DLF leads to undecidability of ABox consi...
The development of increasingly complex multimedia applications calls for new methodologies for the organization and retrieval of still images and video sequences. Query and retri...
Analytical queries defined on data warehouses are complex and use several join operations that are very costly, especially when run on very large data volumes. To improve response...