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2003
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Formal Semantics of Hybrid Chi
Abstract. The verification formalism / modeling and simulation language hybrid Chi is defined. The semantics of hybrid Chi is formally specified using Structured Operational Sem...
Ramon R. H. Schiffelers, D. A. van Beek, Ka L. Man...
KR
1998
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Modal Semantics for Knowledge Bases Dealing with Vague Concepts
The paper investigates the characterisation of vague concepts within the framework of modal logic. This work builds on the supervaluation approach of Fine and exploits the idea of...
Brandon Bennett
CDB
2004
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Semantic Optimization of Preference Queries
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). We present here a nu...
Jan Chomicki
DASFAA
2008
IEEE
168views Database» more  DASFAA 2008»
15 years 11 months ago
SemanticTwig: A Semantic Approach to Optimize XML Query Processing
Twig pattern matching (TPM) is the core operation of XML query processing. Existing approaches rely on either efficient data structures or novel labeling/indexing schemes to reduce...
Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Jiaheng Lu, Bo Chen
PDP
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Two Formal Semantics of a Subset of the Paderborn University BSPlib
PUB (Paderborn University BSPLib) is a C library supporting the development of Bulk-Synchronous Parallel (BSP) algorithms. The BSP model allows an estimation of the execution time...
Frédéric Gava, Jean Fortin