Abstract. The study of databases began with the design of efficient storage and data sharing techniques for large amount of data. This paper concerns the processing of imprecision ...
In a blog network, there are many relations such as comment, trackback, and so on. We consider that if the relations are related to user’s reading activity, we can extract useful...
Binary relations are an important abstraction arising in a number of data representation problems. Each existing data structure specializes in the few basic operations required by ...
—Many large-scale distributed systems can benefit from a service that allows them to select among alternative nodes based on their relative network positions. A variety of appro...
Generality or refinement relations between different theories have important applications to generalization in inductive logic programming, refinement of ontologies, and coordin...