Most of work on partial information in databases asks which operations of standard languages, like relational algebra, can still be performed correctly in the presence of nulls. In...
In this paper, we show how to obtain causal semantics distinguishing ”earlier than” and ”not later than” causality between events from algebraic semantics of Petri nets. J...
This paper describes an algebra for use with parallel object databases, and in particular ODMG compliant databases with OQL. Although there have been many proposals for parallel r...
Sandra de F. Mendes Sampaio, Norman W. Paton, Paul...
This is an extended version of an essay with the same title that I wrote for the workshop Algebraic Process Calculi: The First Twenty Five Years and Beyond, held in Bertinoro, Ita...
In this paper we give a new decomposition algorithm that breaks a multilevel relation into single-level relations and a new recovery algorithmwhich reconstructs the original multi...