The paper investigates the question of whether a partially closed database has complete information to answer a query. In practice an enterprise often maintains master data Dm, a ...
The use of mobile computers is gaining popularity. The number of users with laptops and notebooks is increasing and this trend is likely to continue in the future where the number...
Abstract. The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization of e-services, since it captures...
We present a priority system which is particularly suited for production rules coupled to databases. In this system, there are default priorities between all rules and overriding ...
Rakesh Agrawal, Roberta Cochrane, Bruce G. Lindsay
Abstract. We aim to demonstrate that automated deduction techniques, in particular those following the model computation paradigm, are very well suited for database schema/query re...
Peter Baumgartner, Ulrich Furbach, Margret Gro&szl...