We study the problem of e cient maintenance of materialized views that may contain duplicates. This problem is particularly important when queries against such views involve aggre...
The road network is one of the most important types of information on raster maps. In particular, the set of road intersection templates, which consists of the road intersection p...
Ontologies in a legal expert system must be processed to suit all possible user cases within the field of law of the system. From the logical premises of a deductive system of expr...
It is not surprising that reaching human-level AI has proved to be difficult and progress has been slow— though there has been important progress. The slowness and the demand t...
Order-sorted logic has been formalized as first-order logic with sorted terms where sorts are ordered to build a hierarchy (called a sort-hierarchy). These sorted logics lead to u...