This paper considers a semantic approach for merging logic programs under answer set semantics. Given logic programs P1, . . . , Pn, the goal is to provide characterisations of the...
James P. Delgrande, Torsten Schaub, Hans Tompits, ...
We initiate the cryptographic study of order-preserving symmetric encryption (OPE), a primitive suggested in the database community by Agrawal et al. (SIGMOD '04) for allowin...
Alexandra Boldyreva, Nathan Chenette, Younho Lee, ...
We prove the decidability of the quantifier-free, static fragment of ambient logic, with composition adjunct and iteration, which corresponds to a kind of regular expression langu...
Silvano Dal-Zilio, Denis Lugiez, Charles Meyssonni...
The publish-subscribe paradigm is an effective approach for data publishers to asynchronously disseminate relevant data to a large number of data subscribers. A lot of recent res...
We propose a vector representation (called a 3D signature) for 3D face shape in biometrics applications. Elements of the vector correspond to fixed surface points in a face-centere...