Abstract. In requirements engineering use cases are employed to describe the ow of events and the occurrence of states in a future information system. Use cases consist of a set of...
In this paper we focus on the following problem in information management: given a large collection of recorded information and some knowledge of the process that is generating th...
The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...
Abstract. We prove that ground reducibility is EXPTIME-complete in the general case. EXPTIME-hardness is proved by encoding the emptiness problem for the intersection of recognizab...
The Gamma model is a minimal programming language based on local multiset rewriting (with an elegant chemical reaction metaphor); Hankin et al derived a calculus of Gamma programs...