As the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is about to emerge as a new standard for databases, the problem of providing solid logical grounds for XML query languages arises. For the ...
This paper presents a reactive programming and triggering framework for the coordination of a large number of distributed agents with shared knowledge. At the heart of this framewo...
With the proliferation of the World Wide Web, it has become very important to provide advanced tools for maintaining referential integrity of information resources. The growing te...
This paper aims at integrating techniques of non-monotonic reasoning about updates and of object-oriented specification of information systems. We present how to utilize defaults i...
Designing a terminological knowledge base consists in collecting terms and associating them to their definition. Our objective is to define a process model to support this design ...