A hitherto unquestioned assumption made by all methods for integrity checking has been that the database satisfies its constraints before each update. This consistency assumption ...
We introduce MAGENTA’s commercial multi-agent systems technology, and illustrate its practical use by describing a field-tested application in the area of logistics/scheduling....
Jonathan Himoff, Petr Skobelev, Michael Wooldridge
Automatic fingerprint authentication is an integral part in many security systems. Because not every person is always suited to that technology, a general purpose security system ...
A federated database is comprised of multiple interconnected database systems that primarily operate independently but cooperate to a certain extent. Global integrity constraints c...
The world today is characterised by the proliferation of information sources available through media such as the WWW, databases, semi-structured files (e.g. XML documents), etc. N...