Abstract In [24], a new size-change principle was proposed to verify termination of functional programs automatically. We extend this principle in order to prove termination and in...
Rule bases are common in many business rule applications, clinical decision support programs, and other types of intelligent systems. As the size of the rule bases grows and the in...
For semantic query optimization one needs detailed knowledgeabout the contents of the database. Traditional techniquesuse static knowledgeabout all possible states of the database...
We propose a class of constraints, referred to as conditional functional dependencies (CFDs), and study their applications in data cleaning. In contrast to traditional functional ...
Philip Bohannon, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Xibei ...
Software product line engineering provides a systematic approach for the reuse of software assets in the production of similar software systems. For such it employs different varia...