The goal of this article is to formalize Object Role Modeling (ORM) using the DLR description logic. This would enable automated reasoning on the formal properties of ORM diagrams,...
Temporal reasoning is widely used within both Computer Science and A.I. However, the underlying complexity of temporal proof in discrete temporal logics has led to the use of simp...
The problem of rewriting queries using views has received significant attention because of its applications in a wide variety of datamanagement problems. For select-project-join SQ...
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Applications of semantic technologies often require the representation of and reasoning with structured objects--that is, objects composed of parts connected in complex ways. Alth...
Knowledge about forced moves enables to select a small number of moves from the set of possible moves. It is very important in complex domains where search trees have a large branc...