In this paper we present a formal framework and tool supporting the user in the task of formulating a precise query – which best captures their information needs – even in the ...
Enrico Franconi, Paolo Guagliardo, Marco Trevisan,...
We introduce the notion of views as a mechanism for securing and providing access control in the context of XML. Research in XML has explored several efficient querying mechanism...
Storing state in the client tier (in forms or cookies, for example) improves the efficiency of a web application, but it also renders the secrecy and integrity of stored data vul...
Just as actions can have indirect effects on the state of the world, so too can sensing actions have indirect effects on an agent's state of knowledge. In this paper, we inve...
Medical therapy planning shares a number of properties of project management. It is, however, different in a few very important aspects — most notably, the more complex notion o...