The implication of multivalued dependencies (MVDs) in relational databases has originally been defined in the context of some fixed finite universe (Fagin 1977, Zaniolo 1976). Whi...
Abstract. Aggregation is an important building block of modern distributed applications, allowing the determination of meaningful properties (e.g. network size, total storage capac...
Abstract-- Choquet integral has proved to be an effective aggregation model in multiple criteria decision analysis when interactions between criteria have to be taken into consider...
Starting from a logic which speci es how to make deductions from a set of sentences (a ` at theory'), a way to generalise this toa partiallyordered bag ofsentences (a `struct...
The notion of the "stakeholders" of the firm has drawn ever-increasing attention since Freeman published his seminal book on Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach...