Languages like ML and Haskell encourage the view of values as first-class entities that can be passed as arguments or results of functions, or stored as components of data struct...
The paper introduces a model of the Web as an in nite, semistructured set of objects. We reconsider the classical notions of genericity and computability of queries in this new con...
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
The first steps towards bridging the paper-digital divide have been achieved with the development of a range of technologies that allow printed documents to be linked to digital c...
This paper presents a language, based on transaction logic, for specifying dynamic authorisation policies, i.e., rules governing actions that may depend on and update the authoris...