Answering queries over an incomplete database w.r.t. a set of constraints is an important computational task with applications in fields as diverse as information integration and ...
Dynamic system reconfiguration techniques are presented that can enable the systematic evolution of software systems due to unanticipated changes in specification or requirements. ...
The action language Golog has been applied successfully to the control of robots, among other things. Perhaps its greatest advantage is that a user can write programs which constr...
Hyper-programming is a technology only available in persistent systems, since hyper-program source code contains both text and links to persistent objects. A hyper-programming sys...
Evangelos Zirintsis, Graham N. C. Kirby, Ronald Mo...
The performance of XML database queries can be greatly enhanced by rewriting them using materialized views. We study the problem of rewriting a query using materialized views, whe...