In a recent paper by Hellerstein [15], a tight relationship was conjectured between the number of strata of a Datalog¬ program and the number of “coordination stages” require...
MCORBA is a binding to the CORBA distributed object framework for the purely declarative logic/functional language Mercury. The binding preserves the referential transparency of th...
Our proposal has the following key features: 1) The separation of a distributed program into a pure algorithm (PurAl) and a distribution/communication declaration (DUAL). This yie...
Raphael B. Yehezkael, Yair Wiseman, H. G. Mendelba...
Semantic web researchers tend to assume that XML Schema and OWL-S are the correct means for representing the types, structure, and semantics of XML data used for documents and int...
Andruid Kerne, Zachary O. Toups, Blake Dworaczyk, ...
Declarative policies play a central role in many modern software systems. Engineering policies and their interactions with programs raises many interesting open questions. Categor...
Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Daniel J. Dou...