The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
Klaim (Kernel Language for Agents Interaction and Mobility) is an experimental language specifically designed to program distributed systems consisting of several mobile component...
Lorenzo Bettini, Viviana Bono, Rocco De Nicola, Gi...
Ontology management and maintenance are considered cornerstone issues in current Semantic Web applications in which semantic integration and ontological reasoning play a fundament...
Giorgos Flouris, Zhisheng Huang, Jeff Z. Pan, Dimi...
Approaches to reasoning about knowledge in imperfect information games typically involve an exhaustive description of the game, the dynamics characterized by a tree and the incomp...
This paper introduces a formal theory for describing actions in terminological knowledge bases, closely related to description logics. It deals in particular with the problem of ad...