We introduce a general framework that is based on distance semantics and investigate the main properties of the entailment relations that it induces. It is shown that such entailm...
Deductive conceptualmodels(DCMs) aim at providing a complete specification of information systems,expressing only its logic component.It hasbeenshownthatDCMs have some advantagesw...
Entity resolution is the problem of determining which records in a database refer to the same entities, and is a crucial and expensive step in the data mining process. Interest in...
The alternating xpoint of a logic program with negation is de ned constructively. The underlying idea is monotonically to build up a set of negative conclusions until the least xp...
The paper investigates the question of whether a partially closed database has complete information to answer a query. In practice an enterprise often maintains master data Dm, a ...