We present a method to evaluate path queries based on the novel concept of partial path instances. Our method (1) maximizes performance by means of sequential scans or asynchronou...
Abstract. One of the areas of data integration covers systems that maintain coherence among a heterogeneous set of databases. Such a system repeatedly collects data from the local ...
Argumentation has received steadily increasing attention in the multi-agent systems community over the past decade, with particular interest in the use of argument models from the ...
Grid technologies are becoming more and more mature in recent years. In contrast to this trend, the resource measurement landscape in Grids looks rather dismal. As part of ChinaGri...
Weimin Zheng, Meizhi Hu, Lin Liu, Yongwei Wu, Jing...
This paper presents a programming language that includes paradigms that are usually associated with declarative languages, such as sets, rules and search, into an imperative (funct...