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IDEAS
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
The objective of this paper is to investigate the problems related to the extensional integration of information sources. In particular, we propose an approach for managing incons...
LPAR
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2004
Springer
The extended answer set semantics for simple logic programs, i.e. programs with only classical negation, allows for the defeat of rules to resolve contradictions. In addition, a pa...
JELIA
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. Often, decision making involves autonomous agents that are structured in a complex hierarchy, representing e.g. authority. Typically the agents share the same body of kno...
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2002
ACM
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2006
ACM
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...