Abstract. For systems that share enough structural and functional commonalities, reuse in schema development and data manipulation can be achieved by defining problem-oriented lang...
In this paper, the interest of fuzzy sets and possibility theory in the context of databases is presented. It is shown that these " notions provide an homogeneous framework f...
The binary relation framework has been shown to be applicable to many real-life preference handling scenarios. Here we study preference contraction: the problem of discarding sele...
A Natural Language Interface for Databases allows users of multimedia kiosks to formulate natural language questions. User questions are first translated into a logic language and ...
Data mining on large relational databases has gained popularity and its significance is well recognized. However, the performance of SQL based data mining is known to fall behind ...