Practical applications of description logics (DLs) in knowledge-based systems have forced us to introduce the following features which are absent from existing DLs: • allowing a...
There is a class of data, including messages and business workflow state, for which conventional monolithic databases are less than ideal. Performance and scalability of Applicati...
Abstract. We present for the first-order theory of atomic Boolean algebras of sets with linear cardinality constraints a quantifier elimination algorithm. In the case of atomic Boo...
Unity is an architecture for integrating relational databases that performs three processes: metadata capture, semantic integration, and query formulation and execution. The found...
This paper presents a framework for the management of multiple representations of georeferenced elements in a GIS environment. This solution is presented from a database perspecti...