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SDB
1995
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13 years 11 months ago
A Semantics-based Approach to Design of Query Languages for Partial Information
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...
Leonid Libkin
ICDE
1997
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
Modeling Multidimensional Databases
We propose a data model and a few algebraic operations that provide semantic foundation to multidimensional databases. The distinguishing feature of the proposed model is the symm...
Rakesh Agrawal, Ashish Gupta, Sunita Sarawagi
WAIM
2005
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
An Approach to RDF(S) Query, Manipulation and Inference on Databases
In order to lay a solid foundation for the emerging semantic web, effective and efficient management of large RDF(S) data is in high demand. In this paper we propose an approach t...
Jing Lu, Yong Yu, Kewei Tu, Chenxi Lin, Lei Zhang
AI
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A logic of delegation
Delegation is a foundational concept for understanding and engineering systems that interact and execute tasks autonomously. By extending recent work on tensed action logic, it be...
Timothy J. Norman, Chris Reed
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Active Integrity Constraints and Revision Programming
We study active integrity constraints and revision programming, two formalisms designed to describe integrity constraints on databases and to specify policies on preferred ways to...
Luciano Caroprese, Miroslaw Truszczynski