Data warehouses and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) provide an analysis framework supporting the decision making process. In many application domains, complex analysis tasks ...
We formally characterize alternating fixed points of boolean equation systems as models of (propositional) normal logic programs. To this end, we introduce the notion of a preferr...
K. Narayan Kumar, C. R. Ramakrishnan, Scott A. Smo...
In protocol composition techniques, component protocols are combined in various ways to obtain a complex protocol whose execution sequences consist of interleaved execution sequen...
Secure communications in wireless ad hoc networks require setting up end-to-end secret keys for communicating node pairs. Due to physical limitations and scalability requirements, ...
When a query is evaluated under bag semantics, each answer is returned as many times as it has derivations. Bag semantics has long been recognized as important, especially when ag...