This paper addresses the question of factoring a logic into families of (generally simpler) components, estimating the top– down perspective, splitting, versus the bottom–up, s...
: With the increasing popularity of semi-structured documents (particularly in the form of XML) for knowledge management, it is important to create tools that use the additional in...
Abstract. Future database application systems will be designed as Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs), in contrast to today’s monolithic architectures. The decomposition in man...
Daniel Gmach, Stefan Krompass, Stefan Seltzsam, Ma...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
Error correcting codes and matroids have been widely used in the study of ordinary secret sharing schemes. In this paper, we study the connections between codes, matroids, and a s...
Ronald Cramer, Vanesa Daza, Ignacio Gracia, Jorge ...