– The use of design patterns such as the GRASP (General Responsibility Assignment Software Principles) or GoF (Gang-of-Four) patterns in software engineering has been well-docume...
Cyril S. Ku, Thomas J. Marlowe, Tatyana Budanskaya...
We introduce a new normal form, called essential tuple normal form (ETNF), for relations in a relational database where the constraints are given by functional dependencies and jo...
It is well-known that knowledgebases may contain inconsistencies. We provide a measure to quantify the inconsistency of a knowledgebase, thereby allowing for the comparison of the...
Because of information ubiquity, one observes an important trend towards transferring information management tasks from database systems to networks. We introduce the notion of Da...
In this paper, we present an extension of the scheme HH(C) (Hereditary Harrop formulas with Constraints) with a suitable formulation of negation in order to obtain a constraint ded...