The Semantic Web initiative defines important challenges for knowledge representation and database systems. Recently, several standards for representation languages have been pro...
The λ-calculus is considered an useful mathematical tool in the study of programming languages. However, if one uses βη-conversion to prove equivalence of programs, then a gros...
We explore the implications of supporting bags (i.e. multisets) in a data model and associated query language, and present some formal results concerned with the algebraic propert...
: The aim of this paper is to provide a logically accurate and technologically sound taxonomy of artifact functions. To this end, I review one of the recent proposals of such taxon...
Nowadays the Web represents a growing collection of an enormous amount of contents where the need for better ways to find and organize the available data is becoming a fundamental...
Francesco Ronzano, Andrea Marchetti, Maurizio Tesc...