Abstract. Models addressing both structure and behaviour of a system are usually quite complex. Much of the complexity is caused by the necessity to distinguish between different c...
We propose a perspective on knowledge compilation which calls for analyzing different compilation approaches according to two key dimensions: the succinctness of the target compil...
The skyline query returns the most interesting tuples according to a set of explicitly defined preferences among attribute values. This work relaxes this requirement, and allows us...
In the past decade, researchers have combined deductive and object-oriented features to produce systems that are powerful and have excellent modeling capabilities. More recently, a...
Wei Zhang, Tok Wang Ling, Zhuo Chen, Gillian Dobbi...
We consider the problem of query evaluation in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems that support semantic-based retrieval services. We confine ourselves to the case where the peers employ t...