Recent advances in non-monotonic semantics of deductive databases provide a simple framework for modeling the even-condition-action rules of active databases. This approach unifie...
The notion of rules is very popular and appears in different flavors, for example as association rules in data mining or as functional (or multivalued) dependencies in databases. ...
Associations are a widely used construct of object-oriented languages. However, the meaning of associations for conceptual modelling of application domains remains unclear. This pa...
d Abstract) Marcelo Fiore∗ and Sam Staton† Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge We introduce a mathematical structural operational semantics that yields a congruence r...
Rule bases are increasingly being used as repositories of knowledge content on the Semantic Web. As the size and complexity of these rule bases s, developers and end users need met...