The work performed by a publish/subscribe system can conceptually be divided into subscription processing and notification dissemination. Traditionally, research in the database a...
We consider multiagent systems situated in unpredictable environments. Agents viewed as abductive logic programs with abducibles being literals the agent could sense or receive fro...
The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: for a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Genti...
Z39.50 is a client/server protocol widely used in digital libraries and museums for searching and retrieving information spread over a number of heterogeneous sources. To overcome ...
The role of database knowledge 1susually limited to the evaluation of data queries In this paper we argue that when this knowledge 1sof substantial volume and complexity, there 1s...